Squaring the Circle
Source
Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, Emblem XXI (1618)
The trail
Bruno Eroici Furori → circumambulation to arrive at the infinite centre → Maier's man drawing the geometry that contains himself
The passage
How, by circumambulating, does one arrive at the centre? I cannot know that.
The man draws the circle that contains the triangle that contains the square that contains the man who draws the circle. The circumambulation IS the arrival. The pursuit of the infinite is the infinite pursuing itself through you.
Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, Emblem XXI, 1618.