Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature: Johann Wecker, M.D., Phys., F.T., Treasury of Proto-Sciences, Ethereal Phenomena, Sensory and Cognitive Phenomenology, Material Transformation Arts, Atmospheric and Celestial Observations, Alchemical Practice, Angelology, Ontotheology " 1660 A.D. " By Alexander T H E L I B R A R Y C A T O F : The New Alexandria Library of Texas 🇨🇱 Ft Also DeepAncientThought

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CST - March 19th , 2026 Uploaded to Academia- All rights reserved - I am the Og owner of this fine 1660s Art/Meta/Spirtual lore treatise - Now this is your Copy! - This absolutely fascinating and utterly amazing rare sacred manual or a fine relic of 1660 A.D./C.E., a high time for Proto-sciences of learning and forgotten skills, methodologies, constructs and its miniscule to deep phenomenology modern mankind has lost ! 🔑 I present to you a landmark achievement in early modern thought, bridging the wisdom of the Renaissance, the alchemical tradition, and the emerging methods that would shape early chemistry, religion, pneumatology, angelology, demonology. 🔑 A wow inspiring monumental treasury of early modern thought, bridging medieval scholasticism, Renaissance humanism, and the dawn of empirical inquiry. Across its eighteen volumes, the work presents a systematic exploration of God, nature, and man, integrating divine cosmology, celestial mechanics, elemental theory, and human physiology. 🔑The first five books interrogate the secrets of the divine, angelic hierarchies both benevolent and malevolent, and the influence of the sun, moon, and stars on earthly life.🔑 They provide detailed mappings of internal anatomy, passions, reason, and memory, while also outlining life, death, and longevity through diet, sleep, exercise, fasting, venery, and medicinal interventions. 🔑 These discussions anticipate early modern medicine and phenomenological approaches to consciousness and corporeal experience.🔑 The natural world is meticulously cataloged. Livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, and insects are described with attention to anatomy, function, utility, and symbolic meaning. Plants, trees, fruits, seeds, roots, flowers, and herbs are explored in terms of morphology, reproduction, and therapeutic application, reflecting proto-botany, pharmacology, and early experimental methodologies. Metals, minerals, glass, and gemstones are examined for their physical properties and transformative potential in alchemical processes, from smelting to amalgamation. 🔑 These explorations bridge material science, natural philosophy, and ethereal speculation, anticipating the experimental rigor of later chemistry while acknowledging the mystical qualities of matter. 🔑Meteorological phenomena such as storms, hail, snow, lightning, and tempests are documented alongside ethereal sightings, including luminous orbs, unusual atmospheric glows, and unexplained aerial phenomena observed throughout the 1660s. 🔑 These are presented not as superstition but as legitimate natural occurrences, hinting at a phenomenology of perception and the ether as a tangible medium influencing matter and energy. 🔑 Intellectual disciplines such as grammar, logic, rhetoric, poetry, music, mathematics, astrology, law, and politics are integrated with natural philosophy and mystical studies, reflecting the Renaissance ideal of holistic learning. The text emphasizes the unity of sensory, cognitive, and spiritual knowledge, providing early frameworks for experimental observation, phenomenological inquiry, and cross-disciplinary analysis.🔑 Historical authorities from Aristotle to Paracelsus, Pliny to Agrippa, Dioscorides to Avicenna, and hundreds of lesser-known scholars are referenced, mapping centuries of knowledge transmission. The portraits of these figures reinforce the continuity of intellectual inquiry and the networked nature of learning. 🔑 The compendium positions the ether as an active component of natural phenomena, acknowledging its reality in ways dismissed by modern skeptics. 🔑 It demonstrates that many “supernatural” or anomalous events, including 1660s orbs and luminous apparitions, were observed with rigor and documented systematically. Modern science’s skepticism has often ignored these early accounts, failing to recognize the sophisticated observational and phenomenological methodologies embedded in these texts. 🔑 So ultimately, Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature is a multidimensional interface of knowledge, encompassing proto-sciences, early chemistry, alchemy, material transformation arts, sensory phenomenology, cognitive and spiritual studies, and observational natural philosophy. It captures the human quest for mastery over the seen and unseen, articulates the interface between empirical observation and ethereal phenomena, and highlights the limitations of later scientific dismissals. 🔑 The work stands as a testament to human curiosity, creativity, and the systematic pursuit of understanding across physical, celestial, cognitive, and spiritual realms, bridging ancient wisdom and early modern experimentation while proving that the ether, far from imaginary, is a core medium shaping reality 🔑 KEY ⚠️ TAGS ⚠️ (FIRST I NAME THE DESERVED & FACTUAL PROTO CATEGORIES MODERN MAN BELIEVES IN THE EGO AMBITIOUS DECEIT HE OR SHE INVENTED THESE SCIENCES OF TODAY) proto-biochemistry • proto-toxicology • proto-materials engineering • proto-sensory physiology • proto-industrial chemistry • proto-experimental mechanics • proto-ecological science • proto-food technology • proto-medical chemistry • proto-knowledge systems - Now on to the other Core book Tags with descriptions of Each - Natural philosophy as a unified investigation of matter, life, motion, and transformation before modern sciences separated into specialized disciplines. Secrets of nature understood as hidden operations within substances, revealed through craft, experiment, and persistent intellectual curiosity. Experimental curiosity as a scholarly virtue where investigators test natural processes rather than simply preserving inherited authorities. Artisan knowledge preserved among craftsmen whose metallurgical, botanical, and chemical practices shaped early experimental science. Renaissance polymathy encouraging scholars to study medicine, mechanics, cosmology, agriculture, and mineral arts simultaneously. Empirical observation grounded in careful attention to the sensory qualities of natural transformations. Recipe knowledge functioning as procedural experiments recorded through practical instructions. Applied science emerging when philosophical speculation becomes direct manipulation of natural substances. Intellectual compilation gathering dispersed traditions of practical wisdom into one encyclopedic treasury. Phenomenological investigation focusing on visible transformations of materials under heat, mixture, and fermentation. Natural wonder acting as a catalyst for deeper inquiry into the structure of matter and life. Knowledge transmission through written collections preserving fragile experimental traditions. Early scientific reasoning developing through repeatable procedures and observational consistency. Observational discipline training the senses to detect subtle changes in color, odor, texture, and temperature. Investigative craft combining manual skill with intellectual reflection. Experimental tradition passed from artisans to physicians, apothecaries, and scholars. Natural inquiry seeking the internal causes behind visible transformations. Practical philosophy interpreting nature through experiments rather than pure speculation. Multidisciplinary thinking allowing medicine, agriculture, metallurgy, and cosmology to interact. Intellectual curiosity fueling the exploration of unusual natural phenomena. Natural operations referring to the hidden processes through which matter transforms. Experimental heritage representing accumulated craft knowledge across generations. Hidden causes explaining unseen forces responsible for visible effects. Knowledge integration blending artisanal techniques with philosophical frameworks. Sensory investigation treating human perception as a research instrument. Investigative recipes functioning as controlled chemical procedures. Curiosity culture celebrating unusual experiments and rare natural events. Applied knowledge translating theoretical insight into practical techniques. Encyclopedic science attempting to catalog the entire operational knowledge of nature. Material inquiry examining how substances behave under heat, mixture, pressure, and fermentation. Philosophical experiment where intellectual questions are explored through physical manipulation of matter. Practical wisdom derived from experience and repeated observation. Nature understood as a master artisan producing forms through hidden processes. Art imitating nature by reproducing those pObservational memory preserving discoveries for future investigators. Intellectual curatorship organizing fragments of knowledge into structured collections. Natural curiosity driving investigation into the structure of the material world. Practical scholarship combining philosophical thought with laboratory craft. Early laboratory culture emerging in workshops, kitchens, gardens, and apothecaries. Craft philosophy where manual skill becomes a form of knowledge. Natural experimentation occurring through manipulation of heat, liquids, and minerals. Observational taxonomy classifying substances by properties . I ran out of room . ...

Key to Physic, & the Occult Sciences: Opening to Mental View the System & Order of the Interior & Exterior Heavens; the Analogy Betwixt Angels, & Spirits of Men; & Sympathy Between Celestial & Terrestrial Bodies - Ebenezer Sibly, M.D., F.R.H.S. FT -557 Pgs of Obscure Hidden Science & its Instruments By Alexander T H E L I B R A R Y C A T O F : The New Alexandria Library of Texas 🇨🇱 Ft Also DeepAncientThought

https://www.academia.edu/144255638/Key_to_Physic_and_the_Occult_Sciences_Opening_to_Mental_View_the_System_and_Order_of_the_Interior_and_Exterior_Heavens_the_Analogy_Betwixt_Angels_and_Spirits_of_Men_and_Sympathy_Between_Celestial_and_Terrestrial_Bodies_Ebenezer_Sibly_M_D_F_R_H_S_FT_557_Pgs_of_Obscure_Hidden_Science_and_its_Instruments?rhid=39758979121&swp=rr-rw-wc-165685799&nav_from=ae82ce66-19ce-4c8a-96c5-6628aeb854b7 This fascinating Rare Edition highly methodical with lost disciplinary skills and the esoteric sciences of the forgotten added another one to The New Alexandria Library of Texas is best read not as a narrow grimoire or a sensationalist curiosity, but as a deliberate, learned, and programmatic attempt to place a complex interlocking body of technical practices—physic (the art of healing), spagyric and alchemical preparation, diagnostic and prognostic divination, symbolic artefact-production, and cosmological interpretation—within a theologically sanctioned, intellectually rigorous frame. In Sibly’s conception the book functions simultaneously as manual, encyclopedia, and apologetic: it preserves procedural knowledge (how to prepare, time, and administer remedies; how to construct talismans; how to cast geomantic figures or read a palm), systematizes correspondences (between metals, plants, bodily organs, and planetary influences), and defends the whole enterprise by argument from Scripture, patristic precedent, and longstanding philosophical tradition. The work thereby insists that there is a single domain of “natural order” whose visible and invisible dimensions can be read, manipulated, and harmonized; the physician, the alchemist, the practical theurgist, and the exegete are different trades of the same art of recovering and re-establishing cosmic sympathy. 📜 Sibly’s opening theological posture is crucial and sustained: he explicitly situates astrology and related disciplines within biblical cosmology and natural theology and repudiates any equation of these arts with idolatry or demonic sorcery. He marshals the scriptural language that places “lights in the firmament to be for signs and for seasons” (Genesis 1:14), the precedent of God-directed dream-interpretation (Joseph, Daniel), and the narrative of divinely inspired magi (the wise men of Matthew) to argue that the right reading of celestial order is a form of revelation rather than a rival cult. This apologetic strategy is not mere rhetoric; it is practical hermeneutics—Sibly selects patristic and medieval exegetes, and later humanist interpreters, who understand heavenly appearances as instruments of providence rather than autonomous deities, and he shows how the disciplines he sets out operate as instruments for cooperating with that providential economy. In short, Sibly makes an internal, confessional case: the occult sciences, rightly practised, are an extension of God-given natural law, not a denial of it; their symbolic operations are sacramental in effect because they aim to re-align creature with Creator rather than to supplant divine authority. 📜 What follows in the body of the work is an encyclopaedic and operational corpus focused first and foremost on concrete practices. In the medical chapters Sibly preserves and refines humoral diagnostics and therapeutics with unusual procedural specificity: temperament charts, methods of evaluating the balance of blood, phlegm, bile, and melancholy; dietetic regimens; precise instructions for decoction, distillation, tincture, poultice, and fumigation; and dosage heuristics that fold in lunar phase and planetary hour. These prescriptions are not abstract: they include recipes, spagyric methods of extracting the “virtues” of plants (fermentation, separation, distillation, recombination), and mineral therapeutics (preparations of mercury, antimony, iron, copper and their tinctures) grounded in Paracelsian iatrochemistry yet adapted to English herbal practice as in Culpeper’s tradition. Sibly’s “simple modes” for prevention and cure—timed bleedings, purgations, aromatic fumigations, the administration of lunar tinctures at certain hours—must be read as procedural knowledge: they are rule-sets designed to produce reproducible results in the field of empirical practice as it was then understood. Historians of medicine will therefore find in Sibly not merely cosmological assertion but a compendium of techniques that sit between folk pharmacology and learned iatrochemistry. 📜 Interleaved with this medical corpus is an extensive alchemical and natural-philosophical register. Sibly treats alchemy as a practical technē and as a metaphysical pedagogy: the operations of nigredo, albedo, citrinitas and rubedo are described with attention both to laboratory operations (calcination, coction, sublimation, distillation; apparatus such as the alembic and retort) and to the symbolic transformations they signify in the patient’s soul and humoral economy. He preserves spagyric recipes—how to ferment, extract, and reunify the “archeus” or vital tincture of plants—and elaborates on the medicinal end of the great opus, the preparation of essences and quintessences intended to reinfuse the body with a refined, harmonizing principle. Because Sibly writes in an age when figures such as Boyle and Newton maintained private interests in transmutation and occult natural philosophy, his alchemical passages are situated on a live boundary with emergent chemistry: he permits the reader to see how laboratory practice, metaphysical symbolism, and medical application coexisted and informed one another rather than being cleanly divided by some later demarcation of “science” versus “superstition.” 📜 Closely allied to the alchemical corpus is Sibly’s engagement with subtle-force theories—what he calls “vital spirit,” “magnetical effluvia,” and other names for that mediating agency between visible matter and invisible agency. Here the book anticipates and intersects with the mesmeric and odic experiments of the next century: Mesmer’s animal magnetism, Reichenbach’s odic force, and the wide 19th-century discourse about a ubiquitous, organizing medium that is neither classical matter nor modern mechanical force. Sibly’s descriptions of how the human frame conducts and is affected by subtler currents—how passes, touches, or properly consecrated objects can alter temperament and effect cure—make the work an important antecedent to later experiments in therapeutic suggestion, magnetism, and the proto-psychosomatic therapies that would later be formalized in various guises. These textual loci are therefore of great interest to historians of science who wish to trace the genealogy of energy metaphors and the cultural technologies deployed to harness them. 📜 Sibly’s divinatory technologies are equally detailed and operational. He preserves procedural elements of geomancy (the casting and syntactical reading of figures), chiromancy (the mapping of mounts and lines to planetary signification), oneiromancy (methodical dream-interpretation keyed to biblical and classical typologies), and talismanics (recipes for the manufacture, consecration, and activation of amulets and seals). The talismanic chapters are technical manuals in miniature: choice of metal, solar or lunar timing, the formation of sigils, numerological prescriptions for inscription, ritual purifications and recitations, and instructions for the ethical use of such objects. This emphasis on manufacture is important—Sibly treats symbols and numbers as material technologies: a talisman is not mere ornament but an engineered device whose efficacy depends on correct manufacture, timing, and consecration. For anthropologists of religion and material-culture scholars these sections provide rare, prescriptive detail on how symbolic meaning was deliberately enmeshed with craft. 📜 Underlying all these practical sciences is a dense metaphysical anatomy: the doctrine of microcosm and macrocosm is not a rhetorical image for Sibly but a methodological axiom that dictates how one reads the body, the book of nature, and the heavens together. Organs, plants, stones, metals and planets are bound by a web of sympathies and antipathies that operate according to numerical ratios, tonal harmonies (the music of the spheres), and analogical causation inherited from Pythagorean, Platonic, and Hermetic sources. Sibly’s ontology is richly analogical: likeness is causal in his system; correspondence is a form of causal resonance. Thus diagnosis is often analogical—finding the resonant sign in the macrocosm to the microcosmic ailment—and therapy is corrective resonance—applying the correspondent (a herb, a talisman, a surgical act, a lunar tincture) to retune the system. For intellectual historians this presents a powerful, coherent alternative epistemology—one based on symphonies of correspondences rather than atomistic isolation. 📜 Historically, Sibly anchors himself in an unbroken chain of authorities—he cites and adapts Hippocratic humoral diagnostics, Galenic anatomy, Ptolemaic astrological mappings, Paracelsian spagyric chemistry, Renaissance Hermeticists (Agrippa, Ficino, Pico), and English practical herbalists (Culpeper and his successors)—and he also speaks forward, whether intentionally or as a result of historical transmission, into the currents that will animate 19th-century occultism (Mesmer, Reichenbach, the Rosicrucian and Theosophical movements, the Golden Dawn milieu). The text is thus a node in a longue durée network: its recipes and rules show how Mesopotamian omen lore and Egyptian sacerdotal craft were re-worked into Greco-Roman natural philosophy, medieval Arabic and Latin bestiaries and stellaries, and Renaissance esoteric syntheses, and from there how those practices were domesticated and popularized in the vernacular by English print culture. In addition, its interplay with literatures of the period—its metaphors and images reappear in Romantic poets and visionary artists who sought an organic, ensouled cosmos (think Blakean emblematic vision, Coleridgean symbolic economy)—and its influence extends to late-century occultists who read Sibly as a practical manual rather than anachronistic oddity. 📜 For contemporary scholarship Sibly is methodological gold: the book is a blue-print for reconstructive work. Philologists will value his citations and variant readings of older authorities; historia... ...

Niuserre and Akhnaton: Old Kingdom solar inspiration for the Amarna revolution By Miroslav Barta

https://www.academia.edu/125899877/Niuserre_and_Akhnaton_Old_Kingdom_solar_inspiration_for_the_Amarna_revolution This study shows that the politics of the Abusir kings of the Fifth Dynasty, especially Niuserre, and King Amenhotep III and King Amenhotep IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty, share significant similarities in their intentions, ways of presentation, and purpose. I argue that the specific political and religious arrangements developed by the Fifth Dynasty Kings in Abusir became a direct source of inspiration for Amenhotep III and IV and their "revolution". Both processes share many common characteristics and show the depth and continuance of Ancient Egyptian history. ... https://cuni.academia.edu/MiroslavBarta

Specifika geodetických metod v egyptské archeologii By VLADIMIR BRUNA

https://www.academia.edu/127504484/Specifika_geodetick%C3%BDch_metod_v_egyptsk%C3%A9_archeologii Disertační práce pojednává o problematice geodetických metod v prostředí egyptské archeologie. Dokumentační metody jsou důležitou částí terénního archeologického výzkumu. Vytváří se jednoduché náčrty, slovní popis, kresba na milimetrový papír v měřítku při použití jednoduchých pomůcek. V posledních desetiletích se při archeologickém výzkumu používají moderní metody a technologie. Dokumentace je rychlejší a archeolog získává nové datové soubory, které mu ukazují jiný úhel pohledu na lokalitu. V oblasti geodézie se používají výkonné totální stanice s integrovaným GPS přijímačem a laserovým skenerem. Další metoda sběru dat v archeologii je dálkový průzkum, pozemní a letecké laserové skenování. Disertační práce se věnuje roli geodézie v archeologickém výzkumu se zaměřením na archeologii v podmínkách Egypta. V teoretické části práce jsou popsána specifika geodetických metod, vliv přírodních podmínek na měření, vliv na přístroje a administrativní omezení. Stručná část se věnuje historii a současnosti využívání metod geodézie v české egyptologii. Začátky využívání geodetických a fotogrammetrických metod při výzkumech v Núbii v 60. letech minulého století. Také začátky prací na pyramidovém poli v Abúsíru, dokumentací hrobky Ptahšepsese, budování geodetické sítě. Stručně jsou popsány některé moderní metody sběru a zpracování dat. Dálkový průzkum Země, geofyzikální metody, mapování pomocí GPS, terestrické laserové skenování, využití GIS a 3D modelování pomocí průsekové fotogrammetrie. V praktické části je popsána metoda komplexní dokumentace vybraného archeologického objektu. Jde o hrobku hodnostáře TY v severní Sakkáře. Metoda geodetického měření, terestrické laserové skenování a průseková fotogrammetrie. Postup zpracování dat a tvorba výstupů. Samostatná kapitola je věnována problematice komparace historické dokumentace a její srovnání s novými daty a další kapitola pojednává o metodě dokumentace šachty a pohřební komory vybraného objektu. ... https://cuni.academia.edu/VladimirBruna

Franck Monnier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research, UMR 7041 ArScAn, Chercheur associé

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Quelques réflexions sur le terme « jnb », ENIM 5, 2012 (some reflexions on the word "jnb") By Franck Monnier

https://www.academia.edu/2525093/Quelques_r%C3%A9flexions_sur_le_terme_jnb_ENIM_5_2012_some_reflexions_on_the_word_jnb_ This article proposes new interpretations of the noun jnb, as well as a discussion of the origin of the ideogram which is associated with it. Scholars still do not agree on the meaning of the term, and its presence in a text is often understood as referring to a fortification or an outer wall. An analysis of a selection of documents allows the meaning of this architectural term to be refined. ...

"The so-called concave faces of the Great Pyramid: Facts and cognitive bias", Interdisciplinary Egyptology 2022, v.1.1 By Franck Monnier

https://www.academia.edu/73023581/_The_so_called_concave_faces_of_the_Great_Pyramid_Facts_and_cognitive_bias_Interdisciplinary_Egyptology_2022_v_1_1?rhid=39759509786&swp=rr-rw-wc-125958803&nav_from=5480a5cf-0595-4e59-a91c-a15344e49879 This article provides an up-to-date summary of ongoing research into the so-called concave faces of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. A re-evaluation of the condition and form of the faces of the monument is followed by a review of the descriptions recorded during all the historical eras. This work leads to a re-evaluation of the characteristics of the indentations and demonstrates that this unique feature first became apparent during the more recent history of the monument. ...