In Iconologia del cavaliere Cesare Ripa Perugino, Perugia 1765, the image of Cosmography is found with a strange use of Wheel and Spindle. There are two ways of interpreting this image: alchemical and philosophical. Both speak of operations between heaven and earth.
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Cabala Mineralis or the She Horse on Urine Work part 2
We are resuming Cabala Mineralis, this time affording the Main Works colors passages. The point of this second part is the achievement of Sulfur.
[Read more…] about Cabala Mineralis or the She Horse on Urine Work part 2Voynich Manuscript and the Unknown Part of the Rhythm
An unverified postulate about a strange rhythm between Universe and Earth well rendered by an almost uncertain alchemical source: the Voynich manuscript.
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Cabala Mineralis is a medieval neologism to fit with urine work. A comparison between this watercolors sequence and Hollandus’s treatise on the same topic.
[Read more…] about Cabala Mineralis or the She Horse on Urine Work part 1Stoll, the Lacinius Translator on Male and Female Elements
A rare male and female four elements exposition by a man who did not dare to define himself as an alchemist but only a practitioner translating Lacinius.
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