Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (1617).
In 1617 the alchemist, counselor and court physician to the then recently deceased Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) published his Atalanta Fugiens (Atalanta feeing). The book fits into the general category of an ‘alchemical emblem book’, very popular in the day: it contains 50 beautiful engr...
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Universidad de los Andes
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Revista de Estudios Sociales |
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| Online Access: | http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/701/index.php?id=701 |