Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XX

Naturam natura docet, debellet ut ignem.

Nature teaches nature how to overcome fire.

Emblem XX

A reading

What cannot be forced can sometimes be allowed. Nature has its own ways of meeting heat.

A question to carry

Where could you let something take its natural course instead of forcing it?

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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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