Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, 1609
Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom, printed at Hanau in 1609 by Wilhelm Antonius, four years after the author's death, with the engraved plates he had made between 1595 and 1602. Each plate carries a long caption in his own Latin, with German asides, saying what it shows and dating itself, so that the pictures arrive with their maker's reading. Nine plates are from the Paris copy, whose fold-outs were scanned open; the title is from the Wellcome copy, which is hand coloured.
The engraved title of the Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
The Oratory and the Laboratory
Porta Amphitheatri Sapientiae Aeternae
Typosis Arcis Pri-materialis
Designatio Pyramidum Petrosarum Triumphalium
Adumbratio Gymnasii Theo-magici, macro-cosmici, catholici
The great circular seal, with the sun at its heart
The circle of the two Tablets and the pyramid
Against the slanderers, by right of retort
Was helffen Fackeln, Licht oder Brilln, so die Leut nicht sehen wollen