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Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium ca. 1760 at the Beinecke Library

Alchemy entered into European popular culture in the late middle ages, with the translation of Greek and Arabic texts into Latin and the European vernaculars. Based on the tenets of the Corpus Hermeticum, a body of texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and meant to date to the age of Abraham, alchemy, or al-kimya in Arabic, can be summarized as the attempt to decipher a divine presence in the material world. Hermetic philosophy taught its pr…

17th Century Baroque Crafts Objects

Baroque Violin Pattern

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Violin pattern attributed to a Cremonese workshop, 17th century. http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Violins/ViolinPattern/ViolinPattern.html

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I am Elif Ayiter, aka. Alpha Auer. I was born in 1953, in Istanbul, Turkey. I was trained as a graphic designer, and worked for many years as an art director; after which I switched to academia. My areas are graphic design, theory of creative practice, and visual communication design history.https://www.elifayiter.com