Adumbratio Gymnasii Theo-magici, macro-cosmici, catholici

Heinrich Khunrath, 1609 “Adumbratio Gymnasii Theo-magici, macro-cosmici, catholici illius, quod Naturae est publicum.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, the caption engraved beneath the plate, its opening.

Heinrich Khunrath, 1609 “des grossen Weltbuchs der Natur.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, the same caption, in German, on what the picture is.

Symbolica, 2026 Khunrath's Latin, put into English here: A Sketch of that Theo-magical, Macrocosmic, Universal School which is the public school of Nature. The German phrase is the great World-Book of Nature. The picture is the world itself as the school in which the sages read: sea, waters, stones, plants, animals, minerals and metals, which the caption lists. Transcribed here only in part.

The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.

1. 1The Watercentral motif as it reads here: Adumbratio Gymnasii Theo-magici, macro-cosmici, catholici
2. 2The Treesecondary motif
3. 3The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif
4. 4The Heavenssecondary motif

A wide landscape of mountains, a lake with boats, woods and a town, the sun over it all, small figures of the learned walking and reading in it. By eye

Not yet decoded: the motifs are tagged by eye and the readings above are quoted from their sources. The marks on the picture and the sourced notes come with the entry.