Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XIX

Si de quatuor unum occidas, subito mortuus omnis erit.

If you kill one of the four, all will at once be dead.

Emblem XIX

A reading

The four elements hold each other up. Remove one and the whole falls with it.

A question to carry

Which neglected part of your life is quietly holding up the others?

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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.

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