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LabyrinthDesigners & the Art of Fire

Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

Boschius’s Ars Symbolica, Lifting Machines

Regit omnia pondus

Weight controls everything.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 2, emblem DVI 506.

Parum opis externae

Too little help from outside.

“t.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, LXXIX 79.

Et gravia leniter

And heavy things gently.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 3, emblem CDXXIII 423.

Depressione alteri

Opposite lowering.

“t.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 4, IX 9.

Adversus pondera surgo

I rebel against the burdens of the body.

“t.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, DCCCLXXXV 885.

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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