Viatorium
German translation and chemical commentary on Michael Maier’s Viatorium (1618)
The Viatorium project is an ongoing translation project consisting of a German translation and chemical commentary on Michael Maier’s Viatorium (1618).
It is conducted in collaboration with the chemist Rainer Werthmann and the philologist Aaron Plattner. The project has been progressing in the background for several years at this point. Although we aim to complete it as soon as possible, the extended duration has also enabled us to identify connections that were not apparent during the early stages of the work. We now know the material exceptionally well and hope to publish the project as a book in the near future.
As preliminary work from this project, I characterised Viatorium as a work (Lang, 2021) and wrote about its emblem images (Lang, 2024).
References
2024
- Imago et error. Decrypting the Allegorical Images of Michael Maier’s Viatorium (1618)In Michael Maier und die Formen (al)chemischen Wissens um 1600, 2024
2021
- Michael Maier, Viatorium, hoc est, de monitibus planetarum septem seu metallorum, Oppenheim: Johann Theodor de Bry 1618, Exemplar Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Slg. G. Freytag H 1329 und Signatur Bibliothek Senckenberg 8° R 523.6702021