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Somewhere right now a tattoo needle is tracing a design that a mathematician composed, by his own account, in Antwerp over twelve days in January 1564.
From Monas Hieroglyphica
The Gospel of Mary opens mid-sentence. The first words we have, at the top of page 7 of the surviving Coptic codex, are a question from a disciple: "Then…
From The Gospel of Mary
In the autumn of 1570 a Bologna professor of medicine in his late sixties was arrested by the Roman Inquisition, held until late December, and made to post…
Somewhere in Europe, near the close of the thirteenth century, a writer sat down and produced the most influential chemistry textbook of the Middle Ages.
From Summa Perfectionis
Ask most people what the Gospel of Mary is about, and you will hear a story about a secret marriage.
From The Gospel of Mary
Two texts carry the name of Enoch. One is a Jewish pseudepigraphon, composed in segments starting around the third century BCE, quoted in the New Testament,…
From The Book of Enoch
Fifteen engravings, not one word of explanation. That was the whole teaching of the Mutus Liber.
In Room 1 of the British Museum, in the Enlightenment gallery, sits a disc of black volcanic glass a little under twenty centimetres across.