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Hortus Deliciarum Leviathan
German Romanesque ca. 1170
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From the Aurora consurgens, a 15th C. alchemical manuscript.
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The Opening of the Fifth Seal (detail). From the Beatus Manuscript. Spanish, 1180. Groovy.
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Heinrich Khunrath. Ampitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (Hamburg, 1595), or “The Amphitheater of Eternal Knowledge”
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, - BSB Cod.icon. 340, f. 33r. Beschreibung der historischen und allegorischen Personen der acht Inventionen zum Ringelrennen in den Aufzügen gehalten 1596 anläßlich der Taufe der Prinzessin Elisabeth von Hessen, 1600.
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Shield of Antoine Bastard of Burgundy in his capacity as knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1478).
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Anatomy of the eye, from a Latin edition of Alhazen’s Opticæ Thesaurus (Kitāb al-Manāẓir).
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© Illustration of Evenki reindeer rider from an Evenki fairytales book. Novosibirsk, 1971.
ANCIENT ALIENS???
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De Draconis. From Historiæ animalium liber II : qui est de quadrupedibus ouiparis(1586 edition) Our copy of book two of Gessner’s study of the animals of the world, the oviparous quadrupeds, including dragons. Of course.
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Emblematic Alchemy in English verse, with an English version of the Visio mystica of Arnold of Villanova – Ripley scroll*
*Sir George Ripley (ca. 1415–1490) was an English author and alchemist.
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Heinrich Khunrath. Ampitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (Hamburg, 1595), or “The Amphitheater of Eternal Knowledge”
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Bear shaping newborn cub with tongue.
13th C. MS. Bodl. 764
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Ancient text gives clue to mysterious radiation spike
Eighth-century jump in carbon-14 levels in trees could be explained by “red crucifix” supernova.
His search found the eighth-century entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at the Avalon Project, an online library of historical and legal documents hosted by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Scrolling down to the year ad 774, Allen found a reference to a “red crucifix” that appeared in the heavens “after sunset”.
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From historical and legal texts, collected by William of Malmesbury. 1129.
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A T and O map or O-T or T-O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), is a type of medieval world map, sometimes also called a Beatine map or a Beatus map because one of the earliest known representations of this sort is attributed to Beatus of Liébana, an 8th-century Spanish monk. The map appeared in the prologue to his twelve books of commentaries on the Apocalypse.
Earliest printed example of a classical T and O map (by Günther Zainer, Augsburg, 1472), illustrating the first page of chapter XIV of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville. It shows the continents as domains of the sons of Noah: Sem (Shem), Iafeth (Japheth) and Cham (Ham).
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