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SUMMARY:Emblematic alchemy: Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1617/18) - T
 ara Nummedal (Brown University)
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CONTACT:Marta Halina
DESCRIPTION:Written by the German physician\, courtier and alchemist Micha
 el Maier\, _Atalanta fugiens_ (1617/18) offers its readers an alchemical i
 nterpretation of the Classical myth of Atalanta as a series of fifty emble
 ms\, each containing an image\, motto and epigram (in German and Latin)\, 
 an accompanying fugue (or canon) for three voices\, and a Latin discourse 
 explicating the emblem's alchemical meaning. The parts of each emblem and 
 the 214-page quarto book as a whole are meant to work together\, with the 
 music\, image and text as an interlocking guide to alchemical theory and t
 o the production of the philosophers' stone. In this talk\, I will explore
  the role of sight and image in Maier's alchemical epistemology and situat
 e his book in the visual culture of early modern European alchemy.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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