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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 Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

Boschius’s Ars Symbolica, Ursa Minor

Nescia mergi

I don’t know how to sink.

“X” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 3, emblem CMLXXXII 982.

Sembro fuoco e tutta son gielo

I look like fire and I’m all ice.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, CLXXXII 182.

Sine occasu felix

Prosper without falling.

“X” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 2, emblem CDXXXII 432.

Vertitur non occidit

It turns, it does not oppress.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, DXXX 800.

Quo magis gelat clarius lucet

The colder it is, the brighter it shines.

“Visible to all. Celestial Bear. It never hides. As the academic Saint Ursinus, known as Gelatus/frozen, wrote: The colder it is, the brighter it shines.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, just in index, 1110 .

  • 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 Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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