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Un articolo tratto dal blog del British Museum tratta dello studio di un manoscritto alchemico medievale esposto per la mostra Egypt: faith after the pharaohs. Una storia di simboli alchemici e geroglifici che legano il manoscritto ad un’antica stele.

The Book of the Seven Climes is the earliest known study focused wholly on alchemical illustrations. The climes (from which our word climate is derived) are the seven latitudinal zones into which the astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy divided the inhabited world in the 2nd century AD. Their mention in al-‘Irāqī’s title expressed an intention for his book to be all-encompassing.

 

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