Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XLIX
Infans Philosophicus tres agnoscit patres, ut Orion.
The Philosophers’ child acknowledges three fathers, as Orion does.
Emblem XLIX
The finished work has more than one origin. It is honest about everything that made it.
A question to carry
Who are the three fathers of what you have become?
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.