Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XXI
Fac ex mare et foemina circulum, inde quadrangulum, hinc triangulum, fac circulum et habebis lapidem Philosophorum.
Make a circle out of a man and a woman, from it a square, from this a triangle; make a circle, and you will have the Philosophers’ Stone.
Emblem XXI
The squaring of the circle: the emblem turning behind the logo on our home page. A sequence of forms, each made from the one before.
A question to carry
Where are you in this sequence: circle, square, triangle, or circle again?
Emblem of the day
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.