About This Project
AtalantaClaudiens is a digital humanities project showcasing H.M.E. De Jong's scholarship on Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), an alchemical emblem book combining 50 engraved plates, Latin mottos, epigrams, prose discourses, and three-voice musical fugues.
Project Statistics
Data Provenance
Data is extracted from scholarly sources using deterministic regex parsing. All content is tracked by source method and confidence level. AI-assisted content is explicitly marked.
| SEED_DATA | Loaded from structured JSON seed file |
| CORPUS_EXTRACTION | Parsed from source text by Python scripts |
| LLM_ASSISTED | Generated by language model (marked with review badges) |
Image Credits
The 51 plates of Atalanta Fugiens reproduced on this site come from Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary, edited by Tara Nummedal and Donna Bilak (Brown University Library and Brown University Digital Publications, 2018; University of Virginia Press, 2020). Images are used under the project's CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license; for high-resolution browsing, scholarly apparatus, and audio of the fugues we recommend visiting the project directly.
Plates from other emblem books displayed in the Visual Browser and Galleries are public-domain originals, served via the sister project AlchemyBeatEmUp (which scraped them from Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive). Pixelated game-asset versions in that sister project are NOT shown here — every cross-corpus image on Claudiens is the original engraving.
Architecture
SQLite database → Python scripts → Static HTML/CSS/JS → GitHub Pages. No frameworks, no build tools, no runtime dependencies.