In Aurora Thesaurus, Dorneus is said to have evolved Leonhard Thurneysser’s sketch of a right-size apparatus to distill urine. But even Thurneysser was profoundly influenced by the writings of Paracelsus. [Read more…] about Aurora Thesaurus and the Anatomical Alembic
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Dorneus & the Third Level
The third Level is the Solution in Scala Transmutationis. Gerardus Dorneus in Congeries Paracelsicae, 1581, deals with this challenging and confusing level between the Labors of Hercules and Main Work. [Read more…] about Dorneus & the Third Level
Dorneus & the Need for two Eagles
Gerard Dorn, or Dorneus, in his Dictionarium Paracelsi engraving on the cover, exposes two Eagles bringing bunches of Alchemy keys to an alchemist who is picking up Philosophical Water or Dissolvent. [Read more…] about Dorneus & the Need for two Eagles