German physician, alchemist and composer (1568–1622)

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Count Michael Maier : doctor of philosophy and of medicine, alchemist, Rosicrucian, mystic, 1568-1622 life and writings / by J.B. Craven.

Chansons intellectuelles sur la résurrection du phénix / Michel Maier ; précédé de Le Phénix dans l'oeuvre de Michel Maier ... par Sylvain Matton et de La Musique des Cantilenae intellectuales par Jacques Rebotier.

Michael Maier (1569-1622) : new bio-bibliographical material / Karin Figala and Ulrich Neumann.

The quest for the phoenix : spiritual alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622) / by Hereward Tilton.

Count Michael Maier, doctor of philosophy and of medicine, alchemist, Rosicrucian, mystic, 1568-1622 : life and writings / by J.B. Craven.

Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum, per oculis et intellectui accurate accommodata, figuris cupro ... incisa ... emblemata, hisque confines ... sententias, doctissimaque item epigrammata, illustratum ... / [Michael Maier].

Atalanta fvgiens, hoc est emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica. Accommodata partim oculis & intellectui, figuris cupro incisis, adjectisqúe sententiis, epigrammatis & notis, partim auribus & recreationi animi plus minus 50 fugis musicalibus trium vocum, quarum duÆ ad unam simplicem melodiam distichis canendis peraptam, correspondeant ... / authore Michaele Majero.

Tripvs avrevs, hoc est, tres tractatvs chymici selectissimi, nempe I. Basilii Valentini ... Practica vna cum 12. clauibus & appendice, ex Germanico: II. Thomæ Nortoni ... Crede mihi seu ordinale, ante annos 140. ab authore scriptum, nunc ex anglicano manuscripto in latinum translatum, phrasi cuiusque authoris vt & sententia retenta; III. Cremeri cvivsdam ... Abbatus Westmonasteriensis ... Testamentum, hactenus nondum publicatum. Nunc in diuersarum nationum gratiam / editi, & figuris cupro affabre incisis ornati operâ & studio Michaelis Maieri.

Septimana philosophica, qua aenigmata aureola de omni naturae genere a Salomone ... et Arabiae regina Saba, nec non Hyramo, Tyri principe, sibi invicem in modum colloquii proponuntur et enodantur: ubi passim novae, at verae ... rerum naturalium causae exponuntur et demonstrantur.

Arcana arcanissima hoc est Hieroglyphica Ægyptio-Græca : vulgo necdum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex vno Ægyptiorum artificio, quod aureu[m] animi & corporis medicamentum peregit, deductam, vnde tot poëtarum allegoriæ, scriptorum narrationes fabulosæ & pertotam encyclopædiam errores sparsi clarissima veritatis luce manifestantur, suæq[ue] tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris exposita authore Michaele Maiero Comite Palatii Cæsarei, equite exemto, Phil: & Med: Doct: &c: Cæsar: Mai: quondam aulico.

Arcana arcanissima, hoc est, Hieroglyphica Ægyptio-Græca : vulgo needum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium, & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex vno Ægyptiorum artificio, quad aureum animi & Corporis medicamentum peregit, deductam : vnde tot poëtarum allegoriæ, scriptorum narrationes fabulosæ & per totam encyclopædiam errores sparsi clarissima veritatis luce manifestantur, suaque tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris exposita / authore Michaele Maiero.

Lusus serius, quo Hermes sive Mercurius rex mundanorum omnium sub nomine existentium, post longam disceptationem in Concilio Octovirali habitam, homine rationali arbitro, judicatus et constitutus est.

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Michael Maier

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Septimana philosophica, qua aenigmata aureola de omni naturae genere a Salomone ... et Arabiae regina Saba, nec non Hyramo, Tyri principe, sibi invicem in modum colloquii proponuntur et enodantur: ubi passim novae, at verae ... rerum naturalium causae exponuntur et demonstrantur.

Chansons intellectuelles sur la résurrection du phénix / Michel Maier ; précédé de Le Phénix dans l'oeuvre de Michel Maier ... par Sylvain Matton et de La Musique des Cantilenae intellectuales par Jacques Rebotier.

Lusus serius, quo Hermes sive Mercurius rex mundanorum omnium sub nomine existentium, post longam disceptationem in Concilio Octovirali habitam, homine rationali arbitro, judicatus et constitutus est.

Frequent collaborators

Michael Maier

Images from the collections

Images by Michael Maier

Works from the collections

Septimana philosophica, qua aenigmata aureola de omni naturae genere a Salomone ... et Arabiae regina Saba, nec non Hyramo, Tyri principe, sibi invicem in modum colloquii proponuntur et enodantur: ubi passim novae, at verae ... rerum naturalium causae exponuntur et demonstrantur.

Chansons intellectuelles sur la résurrection du phénix / Michel Maier ; précédé de Le Phénix dans l'oeuvre de Michel Maier ... par Sylvain Matton et de La Musique des Cantilenae intellectuales par Jacques Rebotier.

Lusus serius, quo Hermes sive Mercurius rex mundanorum omnium sub nomine existentium, post longam disceptationem in Concilio Octovirali habitam, homine rationali arbitro, judicatus et constitutus est.

Frequent collaborators

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