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The Earth is His Nurse

Michael Maier, 1618

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Premium fine art paper: 100% cotton, acid-free, archival
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  • Archival inks (Giclée process) on premium fine art paper (100% cotton, acid-free).
  • 1" border
  • Image Size: 9.7" x 9" – Total Size: 11.7" x 11"
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Emblem 2, Nutrix ejus terra est (“The Earth is his nurse”), from Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (1618). A woman whose body is the terrestrial globe nurses an infant at her breast. Below her, a goat suckles the young Jupiter and a she-wolf feeds Romulus and Remus.

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