{"id":1044189,"date":"2011-02-06T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/physica-sacra-johannes-jacob-scheuchzer-1735\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:11:16","slug":"physica-sacra-johannes-jacob-scheuchzer-1735-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/physica-sacra-johannes-jacob-scheuchzer-1735-2.php","title":{"rendered":""Physica Sacra," Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer, 1735"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The incredible images above are drawn from a book which has long intrigued me, <\/span>Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer's 4-volume early 18th Century extravaganza of art, science and mysticism entitled Physica Sacra<\/span>.<\/p>

As described by Christie's Auction House<\/a>:<\/p>

'In Scheuchzer's gigantic work, Physica Sacra<\/span>, the Baroque attains, philosophically as well as artistically, its high point and its conclusion' (Faber du Faur, German Baroque Literature<\/span>, p. 472). Scheuchzer, a doctor and natural scientist from Zurich, planned the Physica sacra as an explanation of and a commentary on the Bible on natural-scientific grounds. He himself oversaw the illustrations which were largely based on his own natural history cabinet or on other famous European cabinets of rare specimens...<\/p><\/blockquote>

This book seems like a fitting final response to yesterday's very stimulating \"Art and the Curiosity Cabinet\" Conference at Seton Hall University<\/a>, where a lot was said about these ways in which early cabinets (and pre-modern inquiry) resided at the borders of art and science, fact and mysticism. I don't think I have ever seen a more elegant expression of these ideas than the content and illustrations of this book, which blends bible commentary with natural history in a bombastic interest in all of the known world of its time, spanning Memento Mori to the Thesaurus of Snowflakes to biblical miracles, all given equal treatment and weight.<\/p>

Click on images to see much<\/span> larger and more detailed images; worth your while, I promise! You can see 737 of the images from the book<\/span> (!!!) (from which the above 7 are drawn) in Greyherbert's amazing Flickr stream by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>

Inspired by this recent post on the Ptak Science Books blog<\/a> discussing the book; Text from Christie's Auction house description of the book<\/a> when recently auctioning off a complete 4-volume set.<\/p>

Images above, top to bottom:<\/p>

  1. Homo ex Humo ('man from the ground', or 'dust')<\/li>
  2. Memento Mori<\/li>
  3. Ventriculi<\/li>
  4. Heart<\/li>
  5. Columna Ignis<\/li>
  6. Solea cum Squamae<\/li>
  7. Thesarus of Snowflakes<\/li><\/ol>
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