title: Alchemy: The Art of Knowing (Medieval Wisdom)
author: C.J. McKnight
description: YA?A chronological essay in each of these books defines the subject in the context of the Middle Ages. Identified issues, persons, important works and contemporary art will assist students in selecting areas for further research or may increase their general knowledge.<BR>Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: The Alchemy web site on Levity.com
  Atalanta fugiens emblems
  11 - 15
  Go to emblems 16 - 20 . Go to Atalanta page.
  Emblem XI.
  Whiten Latona and tear your books.
  The Discourse:
  There are such great differences amongst authors that
  such persons as search after Truth despair of finding any
  end of this Art. For Allegorical discourses being in
  themselves hard to understand are the Cause of many
  Errors, especially as the same words are applied to
  different thinges and different words to the same thinges.
  Whoever would free himself from these difficultyes must
  either have a divine Genius to perceive Truth through
  much darknesse, or he must have inexhaustible wealth
  and patience to find through experiment what is True and
  what is not.
  But according to the Philosophers one will not do
  without the other; ingenuity will do nothing without
  labour, and vice versa. For no man can have
  understanding enough to avoid a hundred thousand
  errors, obscurityes, digressions, ambiguityes, and yet still
  persist 