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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
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    • Opus Magnum Scheme
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  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

Alchemical Sponges-Humidity Collectors

Orthelius Commentary on Sendivogius. Chapter 5

by Iulia Millesima

The assembling instructions of the famous Orthelius marble sponge to capture the celestial influences in a corporeal medium in this fifth chapter of his commentary on Sendivogius.

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Bacstrom’s Apparatus to Attract Lunar Humididy

by Iulia Millesima

Is Bacstrom’s apparatus to draw lunar humidity an eighteenth-century naivety? From Moon really descends humidity? Does Secret Fire dwell in humidity condensation?

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  • 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
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

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