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Man was created of the Earth, and lives by virtue of the Aire; for there is in the Aire a secret food of life, which in the night we call dew; and in the day rarified water, whose invisible, congealed spirit is better than the whole Earth. (Michał Sędziwój)
Although the letter O and the number 8 are just arbitrary symbols for oxygen, they represent a graceful symbolic harmony between nature and human thought. We perceive both the closed circle and the horizontal eight as symbols of eternal cycle and wholeness, whether it be inhalation and exhalation, burning or photosynthesis, growth or decay. This life-giving substance – the "food of life" – was described as a component of air by the Polish scholar Michał Sędziwój in his text Novum Lumen Chymicum (1604). His pioneering findings on the chemical origin of oxygen served more than a century later to identify this essential element. And it is no surprise that Sędziwój was staying at the Prague court of Rudolf II at the time, which was (and…
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Man was created of the Earth, and lives by virtue of the Aire; for there is in the Aire a secret food of life, which in the night we call dew; and in the day rarified water, whose invisible, congealed spirit is better than the whole Earth. (Michał Sędziwój)
Although the letter O and the number 8 are just arbitrary symbols for oxygen, they represent a graceful symbolic harmony between nature and human thought. We perceive both the closed circle and the horizontal eight as symbols of eternal cycle and wholeness, whether it be inhalation and exhalation, burning or photosynthesis, growth or decay. This life-giving substance – the "food of life" – was described as a component of air by the Polish scholar Michał Sędziwój in his text Novum Lumen Chymicum (1604). His pioneering findings on the chemical origin of oxygen served more than a century later to identify this essential element. And it is no surprise that Sędziwój was staying at the Prague court of Rudolf II at the time, which was (and…
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