Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XXIII
Aurum pluit, dum nascitur Pallas Rhodi, et Sol concumbit Veneri.
Gold rains while Pallas is born at Rhodes, and the Sun lies with Venus.
Emblem XXIII
Maier reads the myth of the birth of Pallas, wisdom, as an image of the work: when wisdom is born, gold falls like rain.
A question to carry
What would it mean for wisdom, not effort, to be what produces the result?
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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.