Beside Time
The texts, thinkers, and images behind the press, from late antiquity to its own editions: a history read, as the press reads it, beside time.
- Late Antiquity
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c. 300
Zosimos Writes of the Art
In Hellenistic Egypt, Zosimos of Panopolis describes alchemy in visions of sacrifice and transformation, joining the laboratory to the drama of the soul.
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c. 405
Jerome Completes the Vulgate
Saint Jerome finishes his Latin Bible, the Vulgate, from which the Canale edition completes the Gospel of Cana in its flyleaf passages.
Texts - The Twelfth Century
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1144
Alchemy Enters Latin
Robert of Chester translates an Arabic treatise as the Book of the Composition of Alchemy, and the art enters Christian Europe.
Texts - The Fifteenth Century
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1463
Ficino Translates Hermes
Marsilio Ficino renders the Corpus Hermeticum into Latin for Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Hermetic vision takes hold of the Renaissance.
Texts - The Sixteenth Century
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1513
The Prince Is Written
In exile at Sant’Andrea in Percussina, Machiavelli writes On Principalities, and Dürer engraves Knight, Death and the Devil.
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1514
Dürer’s Master Engravings
Dürer completes Saint Jerome in His Study and Melencolia I, the brooding first stage of the Great Work.
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1527
Machiavelli Dies
Machiavelli dies in Florence on 21 June and is buried in Santa Croce.
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1559
The Prince on the Index
Machiavelli’s book is placed on the Church’s Index of Prohibited Books.
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1584
Menghi’s Fustis Daemonum
The Franciscan exorcist Girolamo Menghi publishes his working manual, The Cudgel of Demons.
Texts - The Seventeenth Century
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1605
Riviera’s Magical World of the Heroes
Cesare della Riviera addresses the inward “Heroe” in a Hermetic treatise on alchemy as self-transformation.
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1614
Canale on the Bewitched
Floriano Canale’s pastoral manual of diagnosis and healing first appears.
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1661
The Sceptical Chymist
Robert Boyle’s book marks chemistry’s long separation from alchemy.
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1663
The Milan Printing
Giuseppe Marelli prints Canale in Milan; a copy’s flyleaves will later carry the unsigned Latin passages of the press’s Appendix C.
Texts - The Eighteenth Century
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1799
Goya’s Sleep of Reason
Goya publishes Los Caprichos, with The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, the image behind The Wisdom of Catastrophe.
Images - The Nineteenth Century
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1844
Nietzsche Is Born
Friedrich Nietzsche is born in Röcken, Prussian Saxony, on 15 October.
Thinkers -
1861
Scherner’s Life of the Dream
Karl Albert Scherner publishes Das Leben des Traumes in Berlin, reading the dreaming body as a house.
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1872
The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche’s first book reads Greek tragedy as the marriage of Apollo and Dionysus.
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1886
Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche’s sibling masterwork: the same things as Zarathustra, only differently.
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1887–98
Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen
The botanical plates later set beside Canale’s remedies in the illustrated glossary.
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1889
Nietzsche’s Collapse
Nietzsche collapses in Turin in January and never recovers his mind.
Thinkers - The Twentieth Century
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1899–1900
The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud’s book of dreams appears, crediting Scherner among his predecessors. Nietzsche dies in Weimar that August.
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1907
Freud Meets Jung
The two meet in Vienna, and Helen Zimmern’s English Beyond Good and Evil is published.
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1909
Common’s Zarathustra
Thomas Common’s translation, the text of the Nietzsche Set’s first volume, is published.
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1913
The Break, and the Red Book
Jung and Freud part ways, and Jung begins his confrontation with the unconscious.
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1923
A Demonological Neurosis
Freud reads a seventeenth-century painter’s pact with the Devil as a case history.
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1934–39
Jung’s Zarathustra Seminar
In Zurich, Jung lectures on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra for five years.
Texts - The Press
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2026
The Thinking Press Is Founded
In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the press publishes its first book, An History Beside Time.
The Press -
15 October 2026 · forthcoming
The Canale Edition
On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched, Canale’s 1614 manual in its first English translation, with its 92-page illustrated glossary.
The Press -
25 October 2026 · forthcoming
The Magical World of the Heroes
Cesare della Riviera’s hermetic treatise of 1605, translated by the press.
The Press