In his preface, Orthelius points at what will be the focus of the commentary on Sendivogius Novum Lumen Chymicum: the heavenly influences on the earth rendered by twelve images.
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Friedrich Grick: did Roseae Crucis use a Planetary Calendar?
In Fortalitium Scientiae, a recipe by the Roseae Crucis Friedrich Grick seems to involve astronomical planets during operations and Ephemerides knowledge.
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A greedily curious man with intriguing statements, though not an alchemist, Elias Ashmole presents a Philosophers Stone aspect we are not used to reading.
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The eggshells calx and cooking diverting the Sunbeams by a mirror. The last part of my translation from Ortheli Explicatio Verborum Mariae Prophitissae.
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Andreas Orthelius starts his scrutiny of Maria’s words with what worries him most: two Fumes including, or turning on, two Lights.
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