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Orthelius Commentary on Sendivogius. Chapter 1

By Iulia Millesima

Orthelius announces his intention to go above and beyond Sendivogius: searching out the raw matter to extract the threefold salt while not wetting the garment. [Read more…] about Orthelius Commentary on Sendivogius. Chapter 1

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Filed Under: Alchemic Authors 1598-1832 Tagged With: Almanac, Earth-Clay, Equinoxes, Manure-Dung, Orthelius Andreas, Sendivogius Michael-Sędziwój Michał

Testamentum Fraternitatis part 7, known as Constellation

By Iulia Millesima

Reflection and Deflection of Light in this Testamentum Fraternitatis fourteenth chapter.  Are they intriguing optical hints hidden behind a superstition that cannot maintain the claims? [Read more…] about Testamentum Fraternitatis part 7, known as Constellation

Filed Under: Alchemic Authors 641-1597 Tagged With: Almanac, Optics-Lenses-Mirrors, Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis

Hans Memling’s Altarpiece with Boar and January 17

By Iulia Millesima

Is the presence of St Anthony the Abbot enough to hint at the date of January 17 in the scene? And why Hans Memling turns the saint’s pet pig into a bristly boar? [Read more…] about Hans Memling’s Altarpiece with Boar and January 17

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Immortality-Palingenesis-Imaginary Universe, Memling Hans

The Secret Night Chant of a Stradivarius Tree

By Iulia Millesima

One day Stradivari offered a glass of wine to a lumberjack, the price for a secret coded in the Roman calendar. A night when the Moon is unusually not involved. [Read more…] about The Secret Night Chant of a Stradivarius Tree

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Acoustic-Musicology Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Ars Musicae, Sound, Stradivari Antonio

Friedrich Grick: did Roseae Crucis use a Planetary Calendar?

By Iulia Millesima

In Fortalitium Scientiae a recipe by the Roseae Crucis Friedrich Grick seems to involve the use of astronomical planets during operations and so Ephemerides knowledge. [Read more…] about Friedrich Grick: did Roseae Crucis use a Planetary Calendar?

Filed Under: Alchemic Authors 1598-1832 Tagged With: Almanac, Fortalitium Scientiae, Grick Friedrich

Aion and the Sentinum Messed up Ecliptic

By Iulia Millesima

A roman floor mosaic exposes an unusual ecliptic with messy months. The presence of Aion and his mother Tellus is too much intriguing to be uninvolved. [Read more…] about Aion and the Sentinum Messed up Ecliptic

Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Aion Iconography, Almanac, Roman Art

Santi Pupieni and the Raising Black-New Moon

By Iulia Millesima

A simple eighteenth century popular experiment on the astronomical Moon effects on cinders in a bowl full of water. By the venetian count Santi Pupieni. [Read more…] about Santi Pupieni and the Raising Black-New Moon

Filed Under: Alchemy & Nature Tagged With: Almanac, Santi Pupieni Agostino

Trisulti Carthusian Monastery and the Yearbook Wheel

By Iulia Millesima

The eight spokes wheel on a Trisulti pillar means more than a yearbook.  An archeo-astronomical  chart for Equinoxes, Solstices, heliacal and acronic stars. [Read more…] about Trisulti Carthusian Monastery and the Yearbook Wheel

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Trisulti Carthusian Monastery

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