Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem VII
Fit pullus a nido volans, qui iterum cadit in nidum.
A fledgling flies from the nest and falls back into it.
Emblem VII
What rises falls back, and rises again. The repetition is not failure: it is how the volatile becomes fixed.
A question to carry
What keeps leaving and returning, and what is it teaching you?
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Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.