In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the […]
[Virtual Exhibit] Scientific Icons: Autobiographies and Portraits of Early Modern Bolognese Naturalists
Scientific Icons (Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna) tells the history of early modern science in Bologna through the autobiographies and the portraits of its main characters. The choice of such […]