January 3rd, 2011

January 3rd, 2011

Taisnier of Hainault (Hannonius): De Natura et Effectibus Lapidis Magneticis (1562)

January 1st, 2011

[ZB Magnet 1] Taisnier of Hainault (Hannonius), De Natura et Effectibus Lapidis Magneticis, Coloniae 1562, published the letter on the magnet by Peregrinus under his own name. Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, NE 1836: 3, p. 11.

December 29th, 2010

Judith Albert

December 26th, 2010

December 26th, 2010


Barbara Ellmerer

Nature presides over the divine marriage … suddenly two deities are mated in secret union. What hidden warmth infuses mutual sympathy into these twin metals? What harmony makes one their stubborn souls? The stone sighs and burns, and smitten with love recognizes in the iron the object of its desire, while the iron experiences a gentle attraction for the stone. It is thus that Venus often holds the fierce god of war in check and softens his fiercy glance when the angry blood boils within him …

December 22nd, 2010

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December 21st, 2010

December 20th, 2010

Barbara Ellmerer

December 19th, 2010

Judith Albert