| Ref No | WIA GC/1912/113 |
| Title | Boll, Franz to Warburg, Aby 10/09/1912 |
| Writer | Boll, Franz |
| Place1 | Heidelberg, Untere Neckarstrasse 32 |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 10/09/1912 |
| Format | manuscript |
| Contents | thanks Warburg and Mary Warburg most warmly for their hospitality in Hamburg; compares it to life in luxury, like the Phaeacian; was very happy, not to do nothing the whole time, but to engage in work with Warburg; his son visited the Tivoli in Copenhagen, was at the helm of a motorboat in Kiel harbour, visited Hagenbeck Zoo and the steamship 'Blücher'; his wife will visit her relatives in Switzerland; thanks Warburg for letters and cables, a copy of [Stewart] Culin's book [author of books on Oriental games, dice, chess etc.] and photographs of manuscripts in Vienna; requests the invoice for the photographs and Warburg's article for the Heidelberg Academy; is pleased that Firmicus has been explained and is looking forward to reading [Konrat] Ziegler's explanations; the arrangement of planets with Pseudo-Callisthenes (Nectanebus) is simply following the days of the week; Warburg has left out Hermes in his letter; Boll did not know the arrangement of the stones as sent by Warburg; only Hermes = smaragdos is listed in the literature; replies in detail to Warburg's queries, why Abraham was the source for the so-called 'myriogenesis' [medical aspects of the theory of correspondence between the human microcosm and universal macrocosm] has been explained by Boll in his book 'Sphaera'; mentions Aesculapius as the writer or the real myriogenesis; Saxl's letter is 'nice and honest'; returns it to Warburg; but because Saxl is so honest, Boll is inclined to employ not Saxl, but a philologist; Boll can teach Saxl Greek petrography, but Saxl needs to know more than that; the seven rings of Apollonios von Tyrus are parallel to the seven stones of the seven planets of Nectanebus; Boll is very busy in the summer semester; hopes to finish his [Wilhelm Heinrich] Roscher article; sends greetings to [Felix von] Eckardt |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/716 | Saxl; Fritz (08/01/1890 - 22/03/1948); Prof. Dr. phil. | 08/01/1890 - 22/03/1948 |
| DS/UK/910 | Roscher; Wilhelm Heinrich (12/02/1845-09/03/1923); Prof. Dr. | 12/02/1845-09/03/1923 |
| DS/UK/955 | Warburg; Mary, née Hertz (13/10/1866-04/12/1934) | 13/10/1866-04/12/1934 |
| DS/UK/1277 | Boll; Franz (01/07/1867-03/07/1924); Prof. Dr. phil. | 01/07/1867-03/07/1924 |
| DS/UK/1469 | Eckardt; Felix von (1866-1936) | 1866-1936 |
| DS/UK/2245 | Warburg; Aby Moritz (13/06/1866-26/10/1929); Professor, Dr. | 13/06/1866-26/10/1929 |