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Exploring Francis Bacon's vision of the Americas in his New Atlantis, the prophetic and religious underpinnings of his utopia, and its influence on esoteric movements from Rosicrucians to Freemasons.
Why the single-snake staff that crowns hospital logos encodes an ancient pharmacological theology in which venom and remedy are two coils of the same serpent.
What Newton copied, translated, and annotated from the alchemical–Hermetic corpus, why he did it, and how faithful his versions are.
