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Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) at his work table, from the Cours théorique et pratique du livre de Thot (1790).. Etteilla, the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution to the esoteric development of the ...
Mapping the World (French: Le Dessous des cartes) is a French programme that explains geopolitical contexts using maps as visual support. It was created in 1990 by political scientist Jean-Christophe Victor, who hosted it up until his death in 2016. [1]
The Fortune Teller, by Enrique Simonet (1899; canvas; Museo de Málaga), depicting a palm reading Pagtatawas by reading melted alum pallomancy : by pendulums (Greek pallein , ' to sway ' + manteía , ' prophecy ' )
Card player with Austrian tarot cards (Industrie und Glück pattern) Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination Tarot ( / ˈ t ær oʊ / , first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks ) is a pack of playing cards , used from at least the mid-15th century in various ...
Bien avant la deuxième guerre mondiale, en 1922, les industriels annonceurs avaient pensé qu'un système métrique était indispensable pour mesurer la véracité des chiffres de tirage annoncés par la Presse, et ont encouragé l'initiative que prenait avec courage Martial Buisson.
Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (English: "Dogma and Ritual of High Magic") is the title of Éliphas Lévi's first published treatise on ritual magic, which appeared in two volumes between 1854 (Dogme) and 1856 (Rituel). Each volume is structured into 22 chapters, which parallel the tarot. [1]
The Sydney 'Star Camera' used in the Carte du Ciel project, original publication, 1892. The Carte du Ciel (French pronunciation: [kaʁt dy sjɛl]; literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two distinct but connected components of a massive international astronomical project, initiated in the late 19th century, to catalogue and map the positions of ...
Partie de cartes (also known as Card Game and The Messers. Lumière at Cards (USA), or A Quiet Game of Écarté [ 1 ] ) is an 1895 French black-and-white , silent short film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring Antoine Féraud.