John Dee – Benjamin Breen

Early Modern Alchemy: Heinrich Khunrath’s "Amphitheater of Eternal Knowledge"

2 Comments / Alchemy, Book history, Heinrich Khunrath, Hermeticism, John Dee, Sixteenth century, the Occult / Benjamin Breen

“While these Discontents continued, severall Letters past between Queene Elizabeth and Doctor Dee, whereby perhaps he might promise to returne; At length it so fell out, that he left Trebona and took his Iourney for England. The ninth of Aprill he came to Breame… Here that famous Hermetique Philosopher, Dr Henricus Khunrath of Hamburgh came […]

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Images from the Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript is one of my favorite historical mysteries and one that I plan to write about soon in more detail, but for now I present some (new to me) digitized images from this most obscure of books. For more see the Wikimedia Commons page, which seems to contain the complete original text.