Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XLII

In Chymicis versanti Natura, Ratio, Experientia et lectio, sint Dux, scipio, perspicilia et lampas.

For one who works in chemistry, let Nature, Reason, Experience and Reading be guide, staff, spectacles and lamp.

Emblem XLII

A reading

Maier’s method in one sentence, and close to the method of this site: nature leads, reason supports, experience lets you see, reading lights the way.

A question to carry

Which of the four are you walking without?

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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.