Postcard - ‘His nurse is the Earth’.
'His nurse is the Earth' [i.e.: of the Philosopher's Stone]: quote from the famous Tabula smaragdina, explaining the principles of alchemy. Michael Maier (1568-1622) describes phases from the alchemical process in Atalanta fugiens, 1618.
EFM 0023
There is a brief explanation of the image on the reverse of the card.
Size: 105x150 mm
© EFM/Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Collection