193 - (Rühle von Lilienstern, OA). Hieroglyphs or Glimpses from the Realm of Science into the History of the Day. With 1 engraved title vignette. Dresden and Leipzig, (self-published), 1809. Large octavo. VI, 184 pages. Contemporary paper boards (heavily rubbed and bumped).

(Rühle von Lilienstern, OA). Hieroglyphs or Glimpses from the Realm of Science into the History of the Day. With 1 engraved title vignette. Dresden and Leipzig, (self-published), 1809. Large octavo. VI, 184 pages. Contemporary paper boards (heavily rubbed and bumped). Holzmann/Bohatta II, 9455; Ruppert 524. - First edition. - 'In July 1808 he completed his Hieroglyphs or Glimpses ... one of the strangest documents of romantic scientific art ... Some motifs of the writing sound familiar. As if he had listened to too much Adam Müller, Rühle asserted that 'complete knowledge is only possible from the reconciliation of opposing views.' ...All knowledge depends on the observer's standpoint and their interests... In this sense, the programs of Pallas, the hieroglyphs, and Phoebus touched upon one another: uncompromising subjectivity, struggle, awareness of the limitations of every perspective and position, combined with the hope for a unification of what is diverging.' (Bisky, Kleist, Berlin 2012, page 350). - Internal joints cracked.