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Exploring Alchemical Emblems
A series of audio-visual presentations by Adam McLean
This is a new project and method for presenting information about alchemical emblems. To a great extent it complements the study course on alchemical symbolism. It consists of a series of approximately five to ten minute long audio visual presentations for the Windows operating system. One will be issued each week for six months, twenty four in all, through a secure web site from which registered purchasers of the course can download them to their computers. The presentation cannot be distributed as email attachments as they are too large (10 to 15 megabytes each).
In each of these presentations, the student is guided through an emblem by a commentary devised by Adam McLean. The software zooms into areas and explores each emblem in exhaustive detail. The commentary teases out all the puzzling components of the emblem, providing the viewer with insights into how emblems were structured and the narrative or message they contain. Through studying a presentation each week, the viewer will, at the end of six months, have become very familiar with the ways in which the alchemists presented their ideas in emblematic form. These are not deeply scholarly investigations but rather intended for those not especially familar with alchemical material and yet interested in finding out what lies hidden in the amazing alchemical emblems.

As it is perhaps difficult to envisage these presentations from the above description, here is a short 1.5 minute extract from one of the presentations. (That particular presentation runs for over nine minutes).


You can save this to your hard disc if you wish, or run it directly.

If you purchase this course you will receive the url of a protected web site, and a username and password to allow you access. It would be best if you had a broadband connection as the files are large and can take a few minutes to download at broadband speed. It would take considerably longer, half an hour or more, to download a file on a slower internet connection. New presentations will be uploaded every week for the next six months. These include explorations of familiar emblems from Robert Fludd, Henry Khunrath, Schweighardt, Michelspacher, Ripley as well as some more obscure pieces of alchemical symbolism from my collection. All the emblematic material has been hand coloured to bring out the details and make it easier to identify the symbolic components.



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As this purchase has to be manually processed so I can assign you a username and password, it may take a day or so to set this up especially over a weekend, but this can be done almost immediately if I am at the computer when the order arrives.
Sorry, these presentation cannot be accessed on a Macintosh computer.
If you have any questions before you purchase this study material Adam McLean adam@alchemywebsite.com
Please note these audio-visual presentations are copyright © Adam McLean, and no part may be reproduced or distributed in any form (including the Internet) without the permission of Adam McLean.