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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Cesare Ripa & the Two Canons of Beauty
In Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia, we find two different canons of feminine beauty: a bearded and an ineffable one, which may fit with our two kinds of Mercurius.
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Cesare Ripa’s iconology of the Ouroboros world machine fits our main alchemical tools: hot and frozen. The real dichotomy. The real Father and Mother.
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