What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting ... - Victoria Vesna
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222 NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION<br />
Restaurierung, edited by Heinz Althöfer (Munich: Georg D.W.<br />
Callwey, 1987), 76–87, especially 76.<br />
8. Hollandus, Defs weit und breit berühmten Johannis <strong>Is</strong>aaci Hollandi…<br />
Die Hand der Philosophen (Frankfurt: In Verlegung Thomas Matthiæ<br />
Gotzens, 1667). In some versions, the fish, the dirt, and the hand<br />
become a kind of tria prima, a set of esoteric first principles. See<br />
also Oswald Croll, D.O.M.A…. Chymisch Kleynod (Frankfurt:<br />
Gottfried Schonwetter, 1647), 68–74; and Just us Simplicius<br />
Hortulanus, Die Philosophische Hand, das ist: Wahre und gründliche<br />
Philosophische Hand-Leitung zu dem berühmten und hochgepreisenen<br />
Stein der Weisen (Leipzig, 1719). Croll’s D.O.M.A. was originally<br />
published as Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt: Gottfried Tampachen,<br />
1609).<br />
9. For a his<strong>to</strong>ry of the idea that the alchemical work comprises<br />
twelve steps, see Hermann Kopp, Die Alchemie in älterer und<br />
neuerer Zeit, 2 vols. (Hildesheim: G.Olm, 1971 [1886]), vol. 2, p. 9 ff.<br />
10. Wallich, I.Das Mineralische Gluten, Doppelter Schlangen-Stab…, II.<br />
Der Philosophische Perl-Baum…, and III. Schlüssel zu dem Cabinet der<br />
geheimen SchatzKammer der Natur (Frankfurt and Leipzig: Georg<br />
Chris<strong>to</strong>ph Wintzer, 1722), 19.<br />
NOTES TO CHAPTER 8<br />
1. The procedure <strong>to</strong> make the stellated regulus of Mars (metallic<br />
antimony) is adumbrated in Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens<br />
(Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 1617), emblem II; by <strong>Is</strong>aac<br />
New<strong>to</strong>n (c. 1675), reported in Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, Foundations of<br />
Netw<strong>to</strong>n’s Alchemy; or, The Hunting of the Greene Lyon (London and<br />
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975), 251–53; and by<br />
Eirenæus Philalethes [George Starkey], Brevis manuductio ad<br />
rubinum cœlestum, in Musæum Hermeticum Reformatum et<br />
Amplificatum, edited by Hermann van de Sande (Frankfurt:<br />
Hermann van de Sande, 1677), 647–99, translated as “A Brief<br />
Guide <strong>to</strong> the Celestial Ruby,” in The Hermetic Museum, translated<br />
by Arthur Edward Waite (London: Watkins Books, 1953 [1893]),<br />
vol. 2, pp. 2.46–60. The practical procedure is by Lawrence<br />
Principe (personal communication, 1991); and I thank Anthony M.<br />
House for further discussion.<br />
It takes a day and requires:<br />
iron, nails 8 g.<br />
antimony trisulphide, Sb 2S 3 18 g.<br />
potassium nitrate, KNO 3 12.5 g.