Baulot, Isaac

Baulot, Isaac. Mutus Liber. rhttp //pwp.netcabo.pt/r.petrinus/M.Liber.imag.zip].. zip file containing 15 colour images... 

Baulot, Isaac. Mutus Liber. .. preceded by an explicative hypotypose of Magophon [Pierre Dujols], Stavanger , 1985. 

Baulot, Isaac.Mutus Liber introduction and commentary by Jean Laplace. Edited by Jean Laplace. Milan Arche, 1979. 

By the seventeenth century interest in alchemy had peaked, and an unprecedented quantity of enigmatically illustrated alchemical books were published, including the many works of Michael Maier (1568-1622), Jacob Bohme (1575-1624), and even a book with pictures and no written text, the Mutus Liber (Silent Book) by Isaac Baulot (1612- ), writing under the name Altus. 

Pseudonym used by the author of Mutus Liber, the influential wordless book pubhshed at La Rochelle in 1677. His identity remains unknown, although Altus is thought to be an anagram of his real name. Likely candidates of the authorship of the Mutus are Jacob Saulat, who had the work pubhshed, or Isaac Baulot, a physician born in 1619. Baulot had connections with La Rochelle, and met the philosopher John Locke. It is possible,... 

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