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Author:   Peter J. Forshaw
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   37
Weight:   0.950kg
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9789004681682

ISBN 10:   900468168
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   06 December 2024
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Format:   Hardback
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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

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Peter J. Forshaw, Ph.D. (2004), London University, is Associate Professor in History of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam. He was editor of the journal Aries (2010-2020), has edited essay collections and published articles and chapters on esotericism and occult philosophy.

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