For #SciArtSeptember prompt “alchemical” my new #linocut portrait of the earliest recorded #alchemist: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). Alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE), cites her research & innovations & several scholars suspect she lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos relates that she wrote a treatise called "On Furnaces and Apparatuses" & she invented, or at least described … 🧵1/n
"La nueva Jerusalén será eternamente un cristal de antimonio rojizo y transparente, como una piedra (preciosa): es el nuevo cielo y la nueva tierra, donde moraremos todos nosotros."
On the painting with the title "The Alchemist" from the Flemish Mattheus van Helmont, circa mid seventeenth century, are many uses and abuses of #earlymodern paper products reflected in the details. I will address 7 of these paper issues in the thread. Bonus for #Alchemy friends: a large écorché figure, a distillation apparatus over a fire, and metal working assistants.
Enjoy.
The Philosopher's Stone:
A very common symbol in Alchemy is The Philosopher’s Stone. What is it?
The (let's abbreviate) PS like many alchemical symbols has many meanings.
The most common meaning refers to the final product of the alchemical transformation. This could be the material worked upon or the alchemists themselves.
There are often magical or miraculous properties attributed to the PS. It may be a super pure gold or a medical wonder cure.
It is often used as a “seed material" added to the Prima Materia to start the next cycle of transformation.
When these attributes describe the Alchemist, the practitioner becomes noble like the gold or a healer of body and spirit. He may be the ”seed” and pass his wisdom on to others. The PS may be a reconstituted body thereby conquering death.
If the practitioner is religious the PS may be a manifestation of a god or goddess.
If this is the case the interesting angle here in contrast to most common manifestations is that the actualized Spirit or Deity is produced from the Material (or Person) being worked on and is not drawn from any supernatural realm. The Spirit is considered as released from the material world. This attitude can create a feeling of relation or equality between the Material and Spiritual planes of existence.
Some images related to the PS are:
The Squared Circle, Cross, Adam (abstract human), Gold, Grail, Red (color), Gem, Resurrection, King's Son, Fruit, Stone, Child, Treasure
The Squared Circle figure- I see the triangle as “ relation" the square as “solidity" and the circle as “infinity". The symbol then is infinity contained in the material.
Mes réflexions sur mes créations dérivées de Rune avancent bien. Pour ma région au thème alchimie, je pense permettre d'obtenir le secret de l'alchimie avec plusieurs recettes trouvables. L'idée est qu'on pourrait conserver cette connaissance d'une région à l'autre.
Évidemment, cela nécessiterait de posséder les ingrédients nécessaires à chaque recette. Pour que ce ne soit pas trop facile, les ingrédients ne se trouveraient que sur les ennemis, qu'il faudrait vaincre avant de pouvoir les récupérer. Les ennemis Unique et les Rune Lords fourniraient les ingrédients les plus rares.
Je ne vais pas multiplier les types d'ingrédients, je veux garder la simplicité du système de base. 3 ingrédients me semblent bien. C'est le nombre de chaque ingrédient qui variera d'une recette à l'autre.
Pour apprendre une recette, il faudra d'abord la trouver. Ce sera probablement dans des lieux cachés et difficiles d'accès (ceux nécessitant l'action Delve).
Mourir ne vous ferait pas perdre la connaissance des recettes déjà trouvées, mais peut-être perdre les ingrédients récoltés et non encore utilisés?
Il faudra utiliser une carte Gear Outils d'alchimiste pour pouvoir fabriquer les recettes. On ne pourra pas fabriquer des recettes n'importe où: seulement dans les sanctuaires (les Sigil) qui auront donc une action supplémentaire: Craft. On ne pourra fabriquer qu'une recette à la fois par action Craft.
Avec ces différentes règles expliquées ci-dessus, j'espère proposer un petit sous-système sympa, intéressant et bien intégré aux règles de base sans toutefois trop faciliter la vie de la joueuse. Le but reste de garder la courbe de difficulté du jeu en fournissant un petit coup de pouce ponctuel. Mais ce coup de pouce devra se mériter.
There is a lot going on in Pieter van Laer's 1630s "Self-Portrait with Magic Scene" (e.g. #earlymodern#alchemy and #magic, and #books). But have a look at the paper cone in the right foreground of the painting. Likely seeds or #peppercorns are spilling out. This is relevant for #PaperHistory and #BookHistory, dear #histodons.
The 14th international programme gilm - more than 70 films across cinema screenings, moving-image exhibitions, live performances, and a Festival Ceilidh. Fun, friendly and challenging. Kicks off May 2.
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I know it seems strange that an African Goddess brought me to alchemy, unionism and anarchism but there it is. The path of transformation is certainly unexpected. My body is becoming gold.
Another scientist of unknown birthday in #linocut portrait of the earliest recorded #alchemist: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). The ancient alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE), cites her research & innovations. She must have predated him, in the early centuries CE & several scholars suspect she lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos relates that she wrote a treatise 🧵1/n
Scissor Dance: The Menstruum of Silver and Gold, 2009
"How many angels must cry for silver and gold?"
Lenny Kravitz
"I remember a funny dreamer in Leipzig who pretended that gold, which is a pure fire, could not be opened or made potable except by another pure fire. In so saying he was not wrong, and it is so in truth. But I asked him what he understood by the fire that was to dissolve gold. He did not wish to tell me but said that it was a fire that only lights but does not burn. Now I well remembered that Paracelsus also wrote of such a fire, but whether that dreamer understood what was meant by it, I doubt very much, for in such a fire the angels and good spirits are also transformed."
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