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| ISBN13: | 9789004681682 |
| ISBN10: | 900468168X |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
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The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 1
Prologue: Bio-Bibliography & Introduction to Khunrath?s Images
Series:
Aries Book Series;
37;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 12 December 2024
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Short description:
This is the 1st volume of an in-depth examination of the alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala of Paracelsian doctor Heinrich Khunrath of Leipzig (1560-1605) and the novel combination of ?scripture and picture? in the complex ?hieroglyphic? and ?theosophical? figures in his Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609).
Long description:
This is the 1st volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage?s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), ?one of the great Hermetic philosophers?, whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as ?one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences?. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of ?scripture and picture? in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath?s insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in ?Oratory and Laboratory?.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introductory Note
1 Prologue: a Bio-Bibliographical Introduction
1 1560 Birth in Leipzig
2 1570 Immatriculation at the University of Leipzig
3 1575 Apprenticeship in Alchemy
4 1588 Immatriculation at the University of Basel
5 Khunrath?s Portrait Engraving
6 1588 On the Signatures of Natural Things, Graduation in Basel
7 1589 Bremen: a Meeting of Maguses
8 1588?1589 Magical Manuscripts in Berlin
9 1591 A Patent Application to the Emperor
10 1591 A Powerful Patron in Bohemia
11 1592 The Ancient Arabian King and Sage Zebel, Prague
12 1595 First Edition of the Amphitheatre, Hamburg
13 1596 Confession concerning the Chaos of the Physico-Chemists, Magdeburg
14 1597 On Primaterial Chaos, Magdeburg
15 1597 Fashioning Magical Armour
16 1598 A Physico-Chymical Testament, Hamburg
17 1599 Universal Magnesia of the Philosophers, Magdeburg
18 1599 Inventing an Alchemical Furnace, Magdeburg
19 1601 Correspondence from Berlin
20 1602 Extra Engravings for the Amphitheatre, Magdeburg
21 Looking at the Watermarks
22 1603 Second Edition of the Athanor, Magdeburg
23 1603 Water of Health, Magdeburg
24 1603 Signature of Magnesia
25 1604 Gera
26 Practical Philosophical Counsel
27 A Practical Confession
28 Cabbalistic Theosophical Tables
29 1605 Khunrath?s Death, Dresden
30 1607 Three Questions, Leipzig
31 1607 Urim & Thummim, Magedburg
32 1608 On the Fire of the Mages and Sages
33 1608 An Amphitheatre in Mageduburg
34 1609 Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Hanau
35 A Puzzling Discovery
36 ?Complete in All Its Parts?: the Structure of the Amphitheatre
37 Changes in the Text between the 1595 and 1609 Editions
38 The Gratulatory Verses
39 Chimerical Editions
40 1611 A Physico-Medical Treatise
41 1614 Light in Darkness
42 1615 Athanor; 1616 Chaos, Magdeburg
43 Manuscripts & Untraced Works
2 Images in the Amphitheatre
1 Part I. The Image of an Amphitheatre
2 Sculpta, Picta, Scripta: ?Not Just of Words, ? but Rather of Things?
3 Part II: the Amphitheatre Engravings
4 The ?Inventor? and His Engravers
5 Naming the Images
6 Four ?Theosophical Figures?
7 Circular Figure 1: Christ-Cruciform
8 Circular Figure 2: Adam Androgyne
9 Circular Figure 3: Rebis or Alchemical Hermaphrodite
10 Avis Hermetis: Hermes? Bird
11 Circular Figure 4: the Oratory-Laboratory
12 The Oratorium
13 The Laboratorium
14 The Central Table
15 The Auditorium
16 A Matter of Perspective
17 The Dormitorium
18 Underlying Geometries and Symmetries in the Four ?Theosophical? Figures
19 Volvelles
20 Reading the 1595 Circular Images
21 From 1595 to 1602: Changes in the Circular Images
22 The 5 Rectangular ?Hieroglyphic Figures? (1602)
23 The Theo-Magical School of Nature
24 The Entrance of the Amphitheatre
25 The Triumphal Pyramid
26 The Alchemical Citadel
27 Mercurius and Caduceus
28 Hieroglyphic Monad or Mercury?
29 A Heart with Thorns
30 Changing Perspective
31 The Calumniators
32 The Bespectacled Owl
33 The Sequence of the Images
34 Interconnections and Correspondences
35 Khunrath?s Dog
36 Hermes?s Caltrop in the Cave of Nature
37 Part III: Hieroglyphs or Emblems?
38 Hieroglyphica
39 Emblemata
40 Visual Exegesis or Eisegesis?
41 Khunrath?s Visual and Symbolic Terms
42 Khunrath?s Use of Symbolum
43 Hieroglyphic Impressions
44 Part IV: the Roles of the Images
45 1. The Synoptic Role
46 The Amphitheatre?s 1609 Title Page
47 Retrospective Synopsis in the Rectangular Figures
48 Raising up and Defending Truth
49 2. Didactic, Pedagogical, Instructional Roles
50 3. Polemical Role
51 A Surprising Discovery
52 Conclusion
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Biblical Citations
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introductory Note
1 Prologue: a Bio-Bibliographical Introduction
1 1560 Birth in Leipzig
2 1570 Immatriculation at the University of Leipzig
3 1575 Apprenticeship in Alchemy
4 1588 Immatriculation at the University of Basel
5 Khunrath?s Portrait Engraving
6 1588 On the Signatures of Natural Things, Graduation in Basel
7 1589 Bremen: a Meeting of Maguses
8 1588?1589 Magical Manuscripts in Berlin
9 1591 A Patent Application to the Emperor
10 1591 A Powerful Patron in Bohemia
11 1592 The Ancient Arabian King and Sage Zebel, Prague
12 1595 First Edition of the Amphitheatre, Hamburg
13 1596 Confession concerning the Chaos of the Physico-Chemists, Magdeburg
14 1597 On Primaterial Chaos, Magdeburg
15 1597 Fashioning Magical Armour
16 1598 A Physico-Chymical Testament, Hamburg
17 1599 Universal Magnesia of the Philosophers, Magdeburg
18 1599 Inventing an Alchemical Furnace, Magdeburg
19 1601 Correspondence from Berlin
20 1602 Extra Engravings for the Amphitheatre, Magdeburg
21 Looking at the Watermarks
22 1603 Second Edition of the Athanor, Magdeburg
23 1603 Water of Health, Magdeburg
24 1603 Signature of Magnesia
25 1604 Gera
26 Practical Philosophical Counsel
27 A Practical Confession
28 Cabbalistic Theosophical Tables
29 1605 Khunrath?s Death, Dresden
30 1607 Three Questions, Leipzig
31 1607 Urim & Thummim, Magedburg
32 1608 On the Fire of the Mages and Sages
33 1608 An Amphitheatre in Mageduburg
34 1609 Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Hanau
35 A Puzzling Discovery
36 ?Complete in All Its Parts?: the Structure of the Amphitheatre
37 Changes in the Text between the 1595 and 1609 Editions
38 The Gratulatory Verses
39 Chimerical Editions
40 1611 A Physico-Medical Treatise
41 1614 Light in Darkness
42 1615 Athanor; 1616 Chaos, Magdeburg
43 Manuscripts & Untraced Works
2 Images in the Amphitheatre
1 Part I. The Image of an Amphitheatre
2 Sculpta, Picta, Scripta: ?Not Just of Words, ? but Rather of Things?
3 Part II: the Amphitheatre Engravings
4 The ?Inventor? and His Engravers
5 Naming the Images
6 Four ?Theosophical Figures?
7 Circular Figure 1: Christ-Cruciform
8 Circular Figure 2: Adam Androgyne
9 Circular Figure 3: Rebis or Alchemical Hermaphrodite
10 Avis Hermetis: Hermes? Bird
11 Circular Figure 4: the Oratory-Laboratory
12 The Oratorium
13 The Laboratorium
14 The Central Table
15 The Auditorium
16 A Matter of Perspective
17 The Dormitorium
18 Underlying Geometries and Symmetries in the Four ?Theosophical? Figures
19 Volvelles
20 Reading the 1595 Circular Images
21 From 1595 to 1602: Changes in the Circular Images
22 The 5 Rectangular ?Hieroglyphic Figures? (1602)
23 The Theo-Magical School of Nature
24 The Entrance of the Amphitheatre
25 The Triumphal Pyramid
26 The Alchemical Citadel
27 Mercurius and Caduceus
28 Hieroglyphic Monad or Mercury?
29 A Heart with Thorns
30 Changing Perspective
31 The Calumniators
32 The Bespectacled Owl
33 The Sequence of the Images
34 Interconnections and Correspondences
35 Khunrath?s Dog
36 Hermes?s Caltrop in the Cave of Nature
37 Part III: Hieroglyphs or Emblems?
38 Hieroglyphica
39 Emblemata
40 Visual Exegesis or Eisegesis?
41 Khunrath?s Visual and Symbolic Terms
42 Khunrath?s Use of Symbolum
43 Hieroglyphic Impressions
44 Part IV: the Roles of the Images
45 1. The Synoptic Role
46 The Amphitheatre?s 1609 Title Page
47 Retrospective Synopsis in the Rectangular Figures
48 Raising up and Defending Truth
49 2. Didactic, Pedagogical, Instructional Roles
50 3. Polemical Role
51 A Surprising Discovery
52 Conclusion
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Biblical Citations