Dissolutions: OBORO/Perte de Signal 2016

2.1 Mutus Liber Plate 9

2.2 Basil Valentine. First Key

2.3 Aurora Consurgens. Cosmic retort

2.4 others

3.1 control

int thermo_gnd_pin = 45;
int thermo_vcc_pin = 47;
int thermo_so_pin  = 53;
int thermo_cs_pin  = 51;
int thermo_sck_pin = 49;

3.2 entropy

3.3 Turing / machines - see below but maybe document more here…

3.4 Practical notes for our Turing machine dripper…

#include <Stepper.h>

const int stepsPerRevolution = 200;  // change this to fit the number of steps per revolution
// for your motor

// initialize the stepper library on pins 8 through 11:
Stepper myStepper(stepsPerRevolution,5,6);

int stepCount = 0;         // number of steps the motor has taken

#define E1 4
#define M1 5
#define E2 7
#define M2 6

void setup() {
  // initialize the serial port:
  Serial.begin(9600);
	  pinMode(E1,OUTPUT);
	digitalWrite(E1,HIGH);
	pinMode(E2,OUTPUT);
	digitalWrite(E2,HIGH);

}

void loop() {
  // step one step:
  myStepper.step(1);
  Serial.print("steps:");
  Serial.println(stepCount);
  stepCount++;
  delay(500);
}

3.5 A geomantic processor/software

4.1 Amateur Scientist - DIY FET/home-made transistor Scientific American June 1970 (Baker) as most useful resource:

4.2 zinc oxide:

4.3 refs/links/collections:

4.4 materials - silicon and antimony

4.5 notes

4.6 how we can test:

5.1 heat

5.2 acids

5.3 circular/ouroboric

5.4 and sublimation

6.1 mineral identification and testing

6.2 Gamma spectrometry

1. quick start with Theremino - gamma spectrometry
   

   rmmod snd_hda_intel 
   

   pulseaudio
   

   set up with alsamixer
   

   wine Downloads/Theremino_MCA/Theremino_MCA.exe
   

   Then: noise test first of all for zero trim?

   Trimmer inside theremino box - lower resistance = higher voltage/// so higher res = lower = CCW away from GND

   so for 700v we set trimmer to far left CCW (we have 750-1500 model)- lowest voltage

   also gain trimmer on scintillator itself!???? - on ludlum is under screw/bolt..

   see: https://siliconpr0n.org/wiki/doku.php?id=st-gobain:1600-2265

   • voltage should be 800 to 950v (650?) for square tube - bicron

   LUDLUM 44.21 is 400-1200V

   FWHM width percentage is in QUESTION!

   1. settings preferred
      

      zero trim 12 or 4…

      7 is lowest kev energy

   2. example spectra
      

      http://www.gammaspectacular.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=63

      http://www.gammaspectacular.com/index.php?route=forum/post&path=967

      http://www.theremino.com/en/blog/gamma-spectrometry/images

6.2.1 Streak test notes/examples

Insights in Earth Science: A Laboratory Manual for Physical and Historical

By Clair Russell Ossian

6.2.2 copperas - V.I.T.R.I.O.L (also in field trip document)

Iron (II) sulfate



Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem," which means "Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying (correcting or purifying) what you find there, you will discover the hidden stone.

copperas/ferrous sulfate/green vitriol

What is hungarian vitriol? mars and venus (copper and iron)

Copper-iron sulfide is chalcopyrites

Green vitriol is also a useful reagent in the identification of mushrooms:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=WPWsZNvOqVAC&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=Green+vitriol+is+also+a+useful+reagent+in+the+identification+of+mushrooms.[&source=bl&ots=8LBMBs-0BI&sig=-onJlKPmUQSy84KKFsVYUF1OxYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYlqn_qfTPAhUIxYMKHXIlCb8Q6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=Green%20vitriol%20is%20also%20a%20useful%20reagent%20in%20the%20identification%20of%20mushrooms.[&f=false

Iron salts are used commonly in Russula and Bolete identification. It is best to dissolve the salts in water (typically a 10% solution) and then apply to the flesh, but it is sometimes possible to apply the dry salts directly to see a color change. For example, the white flesh of Boletus chrysenteron stains lemon-yellow or olive. Three results are expected with the iron salts tests: no change indicates a negative reaction; a color change to olive, green or blackish green; or a color change to reddish-pink.

1. weathering of iron and other pyrites:
   

   From: http://www.juliantrubin.com/encyclopedia/chemistry/copperas.html

   Copperas is crude ferrous sulfate, and was formerly known as green copperas to distinguish it from white copperas - zinc sulfate, blue copperas and copper sulfate.

   Making copperas was a vast industry here in Britain from the 1600's till the late 1800's. It was sited along those areas of the coast - Kent, Essex, the Thames estuary and elsewhere, where there are still abundant supplies of pyrites (or more probably, marcasite) from the Lias and other clays of the costal cliffs. It is not the golden nuggets of mineral collectors and museums, but rather, a dull black pebble, which is remarkably heavier than other pebbles as it contains a lot of iron. Only when smashed with a hammer does its true nature become evident - the grey-green metallic lustre of the fresh surface, and a slight smell of sulfur.

   From copperas you can make ink, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric and nitric acids, aqua regia, jeweller's rouge, and Venetian Red, and thus it formed the basis of the earliest chemical industry.

   The process for making copperas is the weathering of iron pyrites, as practiced in Nordhausen in Germany as the first stage in the process for making the famous Nordhausen sulfuric acid. The same process was practiced along the Thames estuary, probably brought to England by Flemish settlers. On an industrial scale, large pits, the size of tennis courts, and about fifteen feet deep were lined with timber. A channel at the bottom allowed liquors to run into a cistern. These pits were partly filled with the abundant local pyrites, and simply left in the sun, wind and rain to weather for two or three years. From time to time the liquors were run into the cistern, then boiled down. The concentrated solution would deposit on cooling, green crystals of copperas - ferrous sulfate - FeSO4.7H2O. A greater yield could be obtained by adding scrap iron to the hot solution. The crystals were often gathered on twigs, where they formed like barley sugar. Because big crystals look like green glass, it is also known as green vitriol. Roasting this gives off white fumes of sulfur trioxide, which can be condensed to strong sulfuric acid. This is a heavy oil-like liquid, hence its old name of Oil of Vitriol. But it's not an oil, for it doesn't float on water. Instead it mixes with water vigorously releasing a lot of heat.

   My home process consists of putting a layer of iron pyrites nodules into the bottom of a plastic bucket, just covering with RAIN water, and allowing the contents to stand and evaporate in a warm room - or outdoors in the summer heat, for several weeks. My first attempt didn't work quickly - all I got after several weeks was a pale rusty solution, which was slightly acidic, and tasted metallic. I don't know if this is due to an inherent time lag before the process gets started, or else because I'd used chlorinated tap water, or else had put in too much water. In disgust, I transferred my experiment from the attic to my back yard over the summer. Some weeks later I peered inside. To my surprise and delight, the black nodules were all covered with a white and green encrustation - I'd made copperas - accidentally! Since then I've made a lot, from the same nodules. The process depends on the decomposition of pyrite - FeS2, not by atmospheric oxygen as it states in old chemistry books, but by bacteria - Thiobacillus Ferrioxidans and similar. These extremeophile organisms eat pyrites depositing ferrous sulfate as a waste product. The organisms have been living inside the nodules in a latent state for thousands or perhaps millions of years, and presumably need warmth, air and fresh water to waken up from their dormant state.

   Though I've used pyrites nodules I gathered myself from Lias clays near Lyme Regis, which are black on the outside, I suspect the process will work with any form of pyrites. My golden nuggets which mostly come from South America are too expensive to ruin in such an experiment, but probably would work just as well. Pyrites is a very common mineral - the gold streaks found in coal are made of it ("coal brasses") and most metalliferous mine tips will provide adequate supplies - look for the rocks which are particularly rusty. Any geologist will be glad to point out local sources, and usually provide you with free samples. Pyrites, the plural, is the name used by chemists, geologists nowadays tend to use the singular, pyrite.

   The encrustation on the pebbles is a layer of beautiful white needles up to 5 mm long. Underneath is a moist layer of pale green ferrous sulfate - looking like grains of green sugar. When the mixture dries out completely, the pale green crystals turn white - presumably due to loss of water of crystallization. I don't know the chemical composition of the outer layer of white needles - it may be simply a different crystal form, or a different hydrate, or perhaps a different oxidation state.

   Once the pebbles have become active, a fresh layer of copperas will appear within two or three days of removing the original crust - you don't have to wait weeks as I had to do at the start. It is important that the nodules are left poking out of the rain water into the air. Exposure to daylight doesn't seem to matter, but rain water seems to be preferable to tap water.

   I haven't tried to get oil of vitriol from my crystals yet, but I have used them to make black ink. Simply add a solution to cold tea - and Hey, Presto ! The dense black can be rendered colourless by adding oxalic acid to the liquid. The black solution was the only black dye permitted by law for dyeing silk in Britain for several centuries. It was the only black ink used from ancient times which was not based on soot. Cold tea contains tannin - as does an extract of oak or other barks, oak galls, pomegranates and many other vegetable sources. Tannin produces a black pigment with iron. Try hammering a nail partly into a piece of oak and leave out in the rain for several weeks. You will get a black streak, not a rusty one as you would expect.

   Roasting the copperas will leave a rusty residue of iron oxides, known as Jeweller’s Rouge or Venetian Red, depending on the hue and the method of preparation. This can be used for polishing glass and gold, or as a pigment.

   Roasting the copperas with potassium nitrate should yield brown fumes of nitric acid.

   See also: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/Brownsea-Island-Geology.htm#LOCATION-Southeast-Cliffs

6.2.3 antimony = Sb



According to Leiden professor of medicine, chemistry and botany Herman Boerhaave (1668-1737), the symbol for antimony:Antimony symbol “Denotes a chaos, χάος, world, or one thing which includes all: this is the character of antimony; wherein is found gold [the circle symbol], with plenty of an arsenical corrosive [the cross at the top].” [https://mariekehendriksen.nl/2014/11/26/strange-glass-vitrium-antimonii/]

purification from stibnite - p.196 Way of the Crucible

Oil but references glass: http://www.tpissarro.com/alquimia/antimoil-e.htm

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~panopus/lab/antimony.html

star regulus of antimony: with iron filings and flux (burnt tartar)

how antimony works with gold? - it eats/consumes the king/sol/gold - it is the green lion (see Newton below)

fused antimony (saltpeter and detonation also)

1. glass of antimony:
   

   Valentine's The Triumphal chariot: Making Glass of Antimony (p.44 The Alchemical Tradition, Grossinger) (see also Last Will: https://archive.org/details/lastvvilltestame00basi )

   [GLASS OF ANTIMONY WITH BORAX]

   For there are other Glasses prepared of Antimony, by Addition of Borax and other things, in this manner.

   Take of Crude Antimony one part, of Venetian Borax two parts; put these together into a Crucible, which setting the Vessel in a Wind-Furnace, or urging the Fire with Bellows, cause to flow, that they may be well and perfectly mixed together, afterward pour out the Mixture into a Pan, or Dish of Copper made hot, as thin as is possible, as before was said in the Superior Preparation, and you will find you Antimony fair and transparently clear, *like a Pyropus or Ruby, provided you observe the due and accurate Method, Operating as you ought, in the Governing Fire.

   *The Caution, to which our Author here ascribeds the Success, is that you use a most strong Fire, such as is required for melting Gold: for without this you cannot acquire the Redness of a Pyropus.

   The Redness may be abstracted from this Red Glass, with Spirit of Wine*, and by long continued Circulation in Fire, be perfected, and rendered a most excellent, profitable and efficacious Medicine.

   *Not with common Spirit of Wine, but with Philosophic Spirit, which for extracting this Tincture, I thus prepare. Take of Sal-Armoniac thrice sublimed four ounces Spirit of Wine, distilled upon Salt of Tartar so, as it may be perfectly dephlegmated: put them together in a Phial, which place in heat of Digestion the Spirit may fully imbibe Sulphur or Fire of the Sal- Armoniac; then distil the mixture by Alembic thrice, and you will have a true Menstruum, wherewith to Extract that Redness from the Glass of Antimony. Also the Tincture of this Glass is extracted with its proper Vinegar, and by a further Operation is perfected, and becomes a most excellent Medicament.

   But a transparent white Glass of Antimony, after commixtion thereof, is prepared in this manner.

   [ANOTHER GLASS OF ANTIMONY WITH BORAX] Take Antimony beat or ground small one part, Venetian Borax very pure four parts: put these, well mixed together, into a Crucible, and cause the Mixture to flow well. At first indeed it will be yellow, but if it stand longer in Fire, the yellowness vanisheth, the Matter receives a white Colour, and thenceforth becomes a fair and white Glass. Whether this colour be brought to perfect Maturity, you may prove with a cold Iron, as above is said. Many other ways, of Antimony may be formed Glasses* consisting almost of infinite Forms.

   *Let him who desires to prepare more Glasses of Antimony, consult Beguinus, Hartman, Crollius, and other Authors; we here acquiesce in these proposed by Basilius.

   From: http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/antimony.htm

   http://www.alchemylab.com/triumphal_chariot.htm

   Bartlett says that the use of borax is an error/misleading … p.198

   Lawrence Principe reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vS4aPQI80M

   (note: He mentions quartz as part of impure stibnite, silicon! - stibnite is antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) -> link to semiconductor junction of antimony and silicon above?)

   http://www.levity.com/alchemy/p-antimg.html

2. Principe on stibnite/glass of antimomy - from The Secrets of Alchemy:
   

   Stibnite–roast (-sulphureous fumes)–>Ash–fuse–> Glass of Antimony –extract with vinegar (-inert dregs)–>Red Extract–extract with alcohol (-poisons)–>Sulphur of Antimony

   A schematic of Valentine's chemical transformation of poisonous antimony into medicine. At each step, toxic or inactive materials are suposedly separated - an ilustration of the Paracelsian principle of Scheidung.

   The most famous book in the Valentine corpus appeared in 1604 under the grand title of "The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony (Der Triumph-Wagen Antimonii)". [..] Valentine first describes a way to isolate the Sulfur of antimony. He begins by making "glass of antimony" (vitrum antimonii) - a vitreous substance used commonly (and perilously) to induce vomiting. He extracts the glass with vinegar to provide a red liquid, evaporates the liquid to a gummy residue, the extracts the residue with spirit of wine (alcohol) to give a sweet red oil. This oil is suposedly the Sulfur of antimony, and is no longer emetic or purgative because all poisonous qualities have been separated.

   […]Making the glass of antimony seemed a trivial preparation: this material appears commonly in early modern pharmacopoeia. Valentine even apologizes for starting with something so easy, but the initial results of replicating his procedure showed that the apology was unnecessary. Valentine instructs the reader to grind antimony ore (stibnite, native antimony sulfide), roast it slowly until it turns light gray, melt this "ash" in a crucible, and the pour out the molten material to provide "a beautiful, yellow, transparent glass". Accordingly, I took antimony sulfide and roasted it (laboriously, since it takes two or three hours of gentle heating and constant stirring, a process known as calcination) to a light gray "ash". This ash - predominantly antimony oxides - melted only with great difficulty, and when poured out solidified to a dirty gray lump. Many repeated attempts, with modifications to the temperature and duration of roasting and the length of time the ash was kept molten, always gave the same miserable result. After having exhausted other ideas, I obtained a sample of ore from Eastern Europe (Valentine specifies the use of "Hungarian antimony"), ground it, roasted it, fused the ash, all exactly as before - and this time obtained the beautiful, yellow, transparent glass.

   What finally went right ? Analysis of the ore showed that it contained a small amount of quartz, one of the most common minerals on earth. This minute quantity, about 1 or 2 percent of the ore's total weight, proved to be the key; without its presence, the glass does not form. In fact, when i took the ugly gray lumps from the failed trials, remelted them, and added a pinch of powdered quartz (or silica, silicon dioxide), they also turned into beautiful golden glasses.

   […] Valentine next tells readers to powder the glass and extract it with vinegar to produce a red solution. Once again, the process failed. The yellow glass made with the addition of quartz gave no color to vinegar, even after weeks of stirring. The glass made from the ore gave only a pale reddish color after several days. Chemical analysis provided a surprise: this redness was due not to any antimony compound but rather to iron acetate, undoubtedly from trace amounts of iron in the ore. This red material was formed in such a small quantity that it seemed impossible for Valentine to have made as much of it as he claimed. This time the key lay in a disregarded detail in his recipe: Valentine writes that he stirred the roasting ore with an iron hook, and the stirred the molten glass with an iron rod. Antimony compounds corrode iron very quickly. Thus, Valentine's iron tools enriched his glass with iron compounds. They provided the very substance he was isolating as the "Sulfur of antimony". Valentine's Sulfur of antimony actually contains no antimony whatsoever; it was extracted not from the antimony but rather from his laboratory ustensils!

   This amusing conclusion explains Valentine's claims and observations perfectly. Vinegar dissolves the iron out of the glass, but also dissolves some antimony compounds - hence, the vinegar extract still has the purgative properties Valentine noted. But after the vinegar solution is evaporated, and the gummy residue is extracted with spirit of wine, only the iron acetate disolves, leaving all the antimony behind in insoluble residues. As Valentine writes (correctly), "the residue that remains behind contains the poison, the extraction takes up only the medicine". The alcohol extract is completely nontoxic, and is, just as Valentine says, "sweet", for iron acetate has a slightly saccharine taste.

3. star regulus
   

   Antimony metal can be made to form a visibly crystalline structure by slowly cooling the molten antimony beneath a thick layer of slag. The antimony is reduced from stibnite (Sb2S3) by heating it with iron and saltpeter until fusion ensues. The antimony initially reduced must be further purified by repeated fusion with additional saltpeter before the star can be produced.

   http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~panopus/lab/antimony.html

4. Lister/antimony
   

   From Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist, Anna Marie Roos

   [ also in: http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/64/2/105 ]

   Interesting as:

   In 1674 the natural philosopher and physician Martin Lister published a new method of making glass of antimony for telescopic mirrors, using Derbyshire cawk or barite as a flux. New manuscript evidence reveals that Sir Isaac Newton requested samples of the cawk and antimony from Lister…

   Glass or vitrum of antimony was traditionally created by using what Lister referred to as ‘crude antimony’ or stibnite (Sb2S3, antimony trisulphide) which was ground and then slowly calcined at high heat. The remaining antinomy calx or oxide was then vitrified in a wind furnace, and it was poured into a wide flat dish of metal, generally copper or brass, where it quickly cooled, resulting in the ‘glass’. A wide flat dish of brass or copper with high heat conductivity ensured rapid cooling, the retention of the unchanged sulphide hindering the crystallization of the pure oxide sufficiently to allow glass formation; Rawson has noted that antimony trioxide is considered difficult to obtain in the glassy phase other than through rapid quenching or cooling.26 Principe has described the chymical process that Basil Valentine used in modern chemical terms, noting: ‘when antimony trisulphide is roasted slowly in the air, the oxides of antimony are formed and sulphur dioxide is released’. Antimony oxides, together with residual trisulphide, compose a white ash, which on heating to fusion should produce a yellow or golden transparent glass of antimony.

   

   However, if the stibnite is too purified, no glass will form, and later chemists such as Caspar Neumann (1683–1737), a chymist from Berlin and follower of Georg Stahl, and J. W. Mellor (1869–1938), author of A comprehensive treatise on theoretical and inorganic chemistry (1922), recommended adding sulphur, antimony sulphide or antimony trisulphide to the ash to make vitrification occur.28 Although these chemists thought that by adding sulphur they were making the alchemists' glass of antimony, Principe has found that they were mistaken; their product was a deep red or violet glass, rather than the golden one of Basil Valentine's.29 The addition of silica to the ash does, however, cause the reaction that Valentine described to occur. Valentine was probably using unrefined stibnite that contained silica, and the alchemist's crucible would probably have had an ‘easily-dissolvable silica based glaze’, so an impurity that was not mentioned in Valentine's original account was necessary for the formation of the glass.30 Whether a red vitrium or a golden glass of antimony was created, the poisonous antimony powder, noxious sulphurous fumes and long heating process made these reactions dangerous and tedious.

   Lister's method using cawk stone seemed to solve some of these problems. He stated, ‘the several vitrifications of Antinomy are either opaque or transparent. To the first kind I shall add one, which is in itself very curious, and that these advantages about the rest, that it is done with great ease and Speed.’31 He fluxed antimony ‘clear’, and while that occurred, heated to red heat ‘an ounce or two of Cawk-stone’ that had been gathered in Derbyshire lead mines, and placed it in the crucible with the antimony, continuing the flux for a few minutes.32 The product was then cast into a clean mortar, and the melted liquor was decanted from the cawk, resulting in a substance ‘like polish'd steel’ and as ‘bright as the most refined quicksilver’.33 Lister then noted that the cawk itself did not incorporate with the antimony, so it served purely as a flux. He concluded by stating that he had reacted a variety of substances with antimony, such as lapis calaminaris (calamine or zinc carbonate), stone sulphur (native sulphur), galactites (natrolite, a milky white semiprecious stone), marcasites, alum and ‘divers sparrs’ but none of these minerals had ‘any such effect on Antimony’.34 Lister then promised ‘another time’ to discuss the spirit of the cawk that resulted from distillation, but he never did manage to publish any more about the topic, perhaps wanting to keep all details about it to himself.

   From his brief account and his chymical manuscripts, we can deduce from the literature what was happening chemically (I am currently engaged in reproducing Lister's experiment in the laboratory so that I shall subsequently be an actual witness rather than a virtual witness of the procedure). Lister's description of the cawk-stone, which he termed a ‘very odd mineral’, as ponderous, white, with a smooth shining grain, is of barite (barium sulphate), otherwise termed by the miners ‘heavy spar’.35 In his unpublished manuscript dedicated to minerals or ‘fossils’ in northern England, Lister recorded a series of experiments with the cawk, noting that it was ‘very full of Sulphur’, so much so that when he calcined it in his home laboratory in York it ‘smelt soe strongly sulphureous, yt ye fume of ye Furnace infected all ye neighbourhood’.36 He noted that a lixivium of the cawk also tinged silver yellow, indicating its sulphurous content.37 In his Medicinal Experiments, Robert Boyle mentioned a ‘Tegument’ of the Veins of Lead, ‘which the Diggers name Cawk, which is white and opacous’, so the term was a commonly known one; later mineral guides clearly identify Derbyshire cawk as barite.38

   When barium sulphate was added to the antimony and the mixture was heated in the furnace, the resultant melt would contain primarily antimony sulphide. Just as in Valentine's case of impure stibnite promoting vitrification, Lister's more complex melt would more easily form a stable glass, and lead oxide impurities in the barium sulphate that originated from lead mines would also be a definite help in this regard.39 Heaton and Moore (1957) observed that the glass of antimony was more stable in the presence of lead oxide.40 As in Principe's description of Valentine's crucibles, the crucibles that Lister used in his work would probably be either fire-clay or sillimanite, and during melting the pot would be likely to suffer attack. Alumina would find its way into the melt by dissolution of the pot material, and again this would help to stabilize the glass and make the production of the glass easier.41

5. Vinegars, oils, wet way with antimony
   

   Via humida - Bartlett p. 217

   and how this might square with semiconductor production/thin films?

6. identifying antimony ore/stibnite
   

   

   

   Stibnite is the commonest and the most important ore of antimony. As found, however, it usually contains small quantities of iron and often traces of silver and gold. Surfaces that are exposed to the air are often coated with a black or an iridescent tarnish. It is a nonconductor of electricity.

   Identification and Diagnostics Stibnite is characterized by its bladed structure, perfect cleavage in one direction, its lead-gray color and soft black streak. It fuses very easily, thin splinters being melted even in the flame of a candle. When heated on charcoal the mineral yields antimony and sulfurous fumes, the former of which coat the charcoal white in the vicinity of the assay. Stibnite may easily be distinguished from all minerals but the other sulfides by the test for sulfur. From the other sulfides it is distinguished by its cleavage and the fumes it yields when heated on charcoal. Its closest resemblance is with galena, which, however, differs from it in being less fusible and in yielding a lead globule when fused with sodium carbonate on charcoal. Moreover, galena possesses a cubic cleavage.

   • streak: blackish gray (unglazed porcelain tile)
   • hardness: 2-3
   • luster: metallic
   • non-magnetic

   [but ours does not fuse in (admittedly) small candle flame - and Faraday writes that it will not fuse so…]

   http://www.webmineral.com/data/Stibnite.shtml#.V_47oEc-I50

   http://www.galleries.com/antimony

   What could it be confused with?

   • arsenic and arsenopyrites:

   http://www.minerals.net/mineral/arsenopyrite.aspx

   Grayish/black streak and looks very similar but arsenopyrites:

   1. Gives off a garlic odor when struck or heated.
   2. Dissolves in nitric acid (doesn't antimony?)

   check also for closeness of any GOLD!

7. antimony and sky/stars
   

   http://www.thirax.dk/artikler/OveSpaeth/Ove27/index-uk.htm

   also raven constellation

   how we can begin with material/geomantic processor in this sense…

8. notes
   

   Suchten: http://www.alchemyguild.info/Archives/06%20Laboratory%20Work/Secrets%20of%20Antimony%20-%20Suchten.pdf

   Principe - Starkey works

   antimony and pH measurement: http://corrosion-doctors.org/Corrosion-Thermodynamics/Measuring-pH-antimony.htm

   further DIY pH: https://noisebridge.net/wiki/BioBoard/Documentation/pH

   GeSbTe (germanium-antimony-tellurium or GST) in DVD-Rs:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeSbTe

   http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa13.htm

   related… https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/2013/154694/cta/

9. references
   

   Isaac Newton: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/markh_1.html

   Newton/The Key: https://books.google.ca/books?id=wwc4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=newton+key+antimony&source=bl&ots=eL_ZsFf-V6&sig=jEHYz4kIp1J0Q0Ps2yMLnfaBoP0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYhP7y9MnPAhUKWz4KHcQ5AzYQ6AEIMTAE#v=onepage&q=newton%20key%20antimony&f=false

   Glass: https://mariekehendriksen.nl/2014/11/26/strange-glass-vitrium-antimonii/

   References to antimony in: https://monoskop.org/images/9/98/Elkins_James_What_Painting_Is_2000.pdf

   http://ls.poly.edu/~jbain/mms/lectures/12.Forman.IV.pdf

7.1 furnaces

7.2 culturing ferro-oxidans

7.3 vessels

7.4 equipment/ to get / build

8.1 locations

8.2 collection and sampling

8.3 copper smelting

8.4 colodion photo process with vitriol as developer!

8.5 dry distillation

8.6 cyanide

10.1 alchemy

10.2 refs/papers which are (extracted or in full) in field trip guide above:

10.3 misc

11.1 - 3 layers in cosmic retort and key emblem // 3 diagrams also

11.2 how might antimony via humida/vinegar/acetate path relate to thin film dep?

11.3 how could a leaky, light/dark binary taped Turing machine operate? how easy would it be to build a prototype?

11.4 Aspergillus niger?

11.5 constellations and antimony: regulus // and Corvus/crow (in Virgo) -> geomantic processor

# date: 2/11/2016

import sys
import argparse
from pprint import pprint
import numpy as np
import ephem
from datetime import date
import urllib2
import random
#import time
from math import sin, cos, pi, asin, radians as rad,degrees as deg  

from time import sleep
import os
import logging

################1- first try and make sense of declination and stonehenge decoded figures // Hawkins

# how does site line from observer through stones hit declination
# and how do we calculate this for long/lat? is for latitude only

# Sin d = (sin l x sin h) + (cos l x cos h x cos az) 
# Where d = declination, l = latitude, h = horizon height and az = azimuth. 

# lat for stonehenge = Decimal Latitude 51.178882  51 Minutes 10 Seconds 43.9752
# az for position G = 40.7 (degrees)

# In his book, Prof. North gives the following readings on the height
# of the natural horizon: NE .6-degrees; E .65-degrees; SE .7-degrees;
# SW .6-degrees; W .45-degrees; NW .3-degrees.

# sin 51 x sin .65 + cos 51 x cos 40.7 =0.4859 = approx sin for 29 -> inverse sin - so no pyephem
# skipped cos h!

# sin takes angle in radians so we need to convert to radians

angtorad=0.01745329252
azimuth=40.7 # 40.7 for position p.110 table 1
horizon=0.6 # adjust for angle
lat=51.1788882 # decimal degrees

d=((sin(lat * angtorad) * sin(horizon * angtorad)) + (cos(lat * angtorad) * cos(horizon * angtorad) * cos(azimuth* angtorad)))
#print asin(d)*180/pi  # radians to degrees see also np.deg2rad 

# figures don't quite match table 1 but are close

################2- print planets max and min declinations

# proof of concept for maximum
max=0.0
base=0
d = ephem.Date('-1500/1/1')
sun = ephem.Sun()
while base<3650: # 100 years
    d+=1
    base+=1
    sun.compute(d)
    degreez=deg(float(repr(sun.dec))) # this gives our decimal degrees
    if degreez>max:
	max=degreez
#print('sun max dec: %f' % degrees(max)) # how to do to decimal
#print max # for sun gives 23.92 which is max for moon 29.2 all agreeing with Hawkins

################3- our location and basic pyephem uses

# moon phases

g = ephem.Observer()  
g.name='DISS'  
g.lat=rad(45.521682)  # OBORO - lat/long in decimal degrees find at: http://www.latlong.net/
g.long=rad(-73.574336)  

m = ephem.Moon()  

g.date = date.today()# local time zone, I'm in UTC+1  
g.date -= ephem.hour # always everything in UTC  

for i in range(24*4): # compute position for every 15 minutes  
    m.compute(g)  

    nnm = ephem.next_new_moon(g.date)  
    pnm = ephem.previous_new_moon(g.date)  
    # for use w. moon_phases.ttf A -> just past  newmoon,  
    # Z just before newmoon  
    # '0' is full, '1' is new  
    # note that we cannot use m.phase as this is the percentage of the moon  
    # that is illuminated which is not the same as the phase!  
    lunation=(g.date-pnm)/(nnm-pnm)  
    symbol=lunation*26  
    if symbol < 0.2 or symbol > 25.8 :  
	symbol = '1'  # new moon  
    else:  
	symbol = chr(ord('A')+int(symbol+0.5)-1)  

#    print(str(ephem.localtime(g.date).time()), deg(m.alt),deg(m.az),  
#      ephem.localtime(g.date).time().strftime("%H%M"),  
#      m.phase,symbol)  # added str
    g.date += ephem.minute*15    

################4- constellations and antimony: regulus // and Corvus/crow (in Virgo) -> geomantic processor - we need 3...

# we have Regulus, Gienah Corvi (the Raven's Wing - star in constellation Corvus: http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/gienah.html )

reg= ephem.star("Regulus")
degrees_per_radian = 180.0 / pi

# alt: up/down so minus is below horizon, azimuth: degrees from north
# so how could we start to map/plot or visualize this - see test.plot for gnuplot
# but how do we want to use this?

for i in range(24*4): # compute position for every 15 minutes for 24 hours
    reg.compute(g)
    #    print('Time %s Regulus: altitude %4.1f deg, azimuth %5.1f deg' % (ephem.localtime(g.date).time().strftime("%H%M"), reg.alt * degrees_per_radian, reg.az * degrees_per_radian)) # or as in above we use deg() function

    print(str(ephem.localtime(g.date).time()), deg(reg.alt),deg(reg.az),  
      ephem.localtime(g.date).time().strftime("%H%M"))

    g.date += ephem.minute*15    



################################################################################

# then try with PdeS location and maybe port in gpsgeomancy

# or look at other approaches to geomantic coding - entering crow constellation(south), metal planets, ON DISPLAY in gallery

################################################################################

# refs:

# http://www.celticnz.co.nz/US15.html
# http://www.geoastro.de/elevaz/basics/index.htm
# http://www.sherrytowers.com/hawkins_alignment_paper.pdf
# http://sherrytowers.com/2013/11/27/archaeoastronomy/
# http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/radec.html
# http://michelanders.blogspot.ca/2011/01/moon-phases-with-pyephem.html
# http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/tutorial.html
# https://ocefpaf.github.io/python4oceanographers/blog/2013/10/21/moon_ephem/
# http://michelanders.blogspot.ca/2011/01/moon-phases-with-pyephem.html
# Montreal/Minesotta 45 degrees: http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/astro/CS/CS.16.html
# ??? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8634664/calculate-position-of-star-with-pyephem

11.6 glass/mirrors

11.7 using our own breath as distillation or circulation medium for minerals - possibly for workshop!

13.1 software notes

/usr/bin/python /home/pi/i2canddarkness.py

dd bs=4M if=Downloads/2016-09-23-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/sdb

nmap -sn 192.168.3.0/24 

ssh pi@192.168.3.202

sudo apt-get install python-dev

sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev

sudo apt-get install python-numpy

13.2 final code

#include <Wire.h>
#include <max6675.h>

#define SLAVE_ADDRESS 0x04
int number = 0;
int state = 0;
int darkness = 0;

// for cdrom motor
int E1 = 5;  
int M1 = 4; 

// for stepper

int cyclemb=7;
int inputstep=6; // stepper switch
int step=2;
int dirr=3;
int whereweare=0;
int cdrompos=1;

// cdrom switch will be on 8
int cdswitch=8;

// for pumps. FET on 9 and 10
int dark=10;
int light=9;

// and try for temperature thing on 11,12,13

int thermo_so_pin  = 11;
int thermo_cs_pin  = 12;
int thermo_sck_pin = 13;

MAX6675 thermocouple(thermo_sck_pin, thermo_cs_pin, thermo_so_pin);

void setup() {
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600); // start serial for output
// initialize i2c as slave
Wire.begin(SLAVE_ADDRESS);
// define callbacks for i2c communication
Wire.onReceive(receiveData);

// cdrom motor
 pinMode(M1, OUTPUT);   
 pinMode(E1, OUTPUT); 
 // cdrom switch
 pinMode(cdswitch, INPUT_PULLUP);

 // stepper board old school
 pinMode(inputstep, INPUT_PULLUP);
 pinMode(dirr, OUTPUT);   
 pinMode(step, OUTPUT); 

 // power to motherboard
 pinMode(cyclemb, OUTPUT); 

 // pumps

 pinMode(dark, OUTPUT); 
 pinMode(light, OUTPUT); 

 // zero stepper and set whereweare to 0
 //   do_zero();
}

void do_mbon(){
  digitalWrite(cyclemb,HIGH);
}

void do_mboff(){
  digitalWrite(cyclemb,LOW);
}

void do_zero(){
  // for stepper - move left till we register HIT!
  int havewehit=0;
  while (havewehit==0){
    digitalWrite(dirr,LOW); // is left
    digitalWrite(step,HIGH);
    delay(1); // re-test
    digitalWrite(step,LOW);
    havewehit=digitalRead(inputstep);
    //        Serial.println(havewehit);
  }
  whereweare=0;
}

void do_left(){

  // keep track of where we are!

  if (digitalRead(inputstep)==1) whereweare=0;
  else {
    digitalWrite(dirr,LOW); // is left
    digitalWrite(step,HIGH);
    delay(10); // re-test
    digitalWrite(step,LOW);
    whereweare-=1;
}
  // and if we hit sensor then update where we are...
}

void do_middle(){
  // get to the middle
  if (whereweare!=900){
  do_zero();
  while (whereweare<900){
    whereweare+=1;
  digitalWrite(dirr,HIGH); // is right
  digitalWrite(step,HIGH);
  delay(10);
  digitalWrite(step,LOW);
  }
  }
}

void do_right(){
  whereweare+=1;
  if (whereweare<1800){
  digitalWrite(dirr,HIGH); // is right
  digitalWrite(step,HIGH);
  delay(10);
  digitalWrite(step,LOW);
  //  Serial.println(whereweare);
  }
  //  else do_zero();
}


void do_cdrom_up(){
  // best would be to zero and move to required spot - how we signal that spot? - leave as it is
  // for now just do increments
  int value=150; // right value for inertia
  if (cdrompos<170){
  digitalWrite(M1,HIGH); // low is back down   
    analogWrite(E1, value);   //PWM Speed Control
    delay(10); // small incremenr 
    analogWrite(E1, 0);   //PWM Speed Control
    cdrompos++;
  }
    // how far we can go up? say to 170 increments
    //  Serial.println(cdrompos);
}

void do_cdrom_down(){
  // best would be to zero and move to required spot - how we signal that spot? - leave as it is
  // for now just do increments
  int value=150; // right value for inertia
    // hit switch
    if (digitalRead(cdswitch)==0) cdrompos=0;
    else {
  digitalWrite(M1,LOW); // low is back down   
    analogWrite(E1, value);   //PWM Speed Control
    delay(10); // small incremenr 
    analogWrite(E1, 0);   //PWM Speed Control
    cdrompos--;
    }
}

void do_zero_cdrom(){
  // down until we hit cdswitch - pullup to gnd
  while(digitalRead(cdswitch!=0)){
    do_cdrom_down();
  }
  cdrompos=0;
}


void do_write(){
// in this case just flash the LED-
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);   
  delay(100);                      
  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);   
  delay(100);                    
}

void do_pump_dark(){
  // for certain time???
  digitalWrite(dark, HIGH);   
  delay(10);                      
  digitalWrite(dark, LOW);   
  //  delay(1000);                    
}

void do_pump_light(){
  // for certain time???
  digitalWrite(light, HIGH);   
  delay(10);                      
  digitalWrite(dark, LOW);   
  //  delay(1000);                    
}


void loop() {

      do_zero_cdrom();
  //  do_cdrom_up();
  //        do_pump_dark();
// deal with commands - what are they?

  uint8_t c;
  if(Serial.available()){
    c = Serial.read();

    switch(c){
    case 'W': // write
      //  do_write();
      do_pump_dark();
      break;
    case 'N': // how we could get this to go to value...
      do_cdrom_up();
      break;
    case 'n':
      do_cdrom_down();
      break;
    case 'L':
      do_left();
      break;
    case 'R':
      do_right();
      break;
    case 'M':
      do_middle();
      break;
    case 'H':
      do_mbon();
      break;
    case 'O':
      do_mbon();
      break;
    }
  }

// print darkness and temperature - also where motor is?

// get temperature
int temperature=thermocouple.readCelsius()*10.0;


// Serial.print("darkness: ");
// darkness=1;
  /* Serial.print(darkness); */
  /* Serial.print(" "); */
  /* Serial.print(temperature); // print as ints - one byte 0-255??? */
  /* Serial.print("\n"); */
delay(10);
}

// callback for received data
void receiveData(int byteCount){

while(Wire.available()) {
darkness = Wire.read();
}
}

# Geomantic ouroboric Python software runs // pair with arduino i2cwithpi

# must be in front window

# TODO: tested in chroot for dependencies, test running with arduino on DELL and localtime!
# *******////TM operations and program

# DONE@
# how CDROM light dark - if is above our horizon as in plot then move to show x light
# orientation - 50 degrees - TEST - orient to front window 120 to 300 degrees
# geomancy is DONE
# at what times do our 2 stars rise/set? PLOT THIS - minus 5 hours from UTC

# REG: rise 70deg at 5am (12midnight) // set 270deg 6pm = 1pm height = 60deg
# CORVUS: rise 120deg at 9am (5am) // set 250deg 6pm = 1pm height = 30deg

#//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
# ...................... DESC

# Turing machine (simulation and control based on a reading of light and dark //and/or// planets/stars)

# what is TM? busy beaver or dictated by stars?

# Pyephem for star movements (plotted ascii) - Corvus, Regulus, Sun and Moon

# Geomancy based on the above star movements and light and dark/TM status

# Monitors: temperature (within digester)

# Controls: stepper of TM, CDROM DC motor movement, switching pumps

# Displays: ascii plot of star movements, TM status, temperature, geomancy

#////////////////////////////

import sys
import argparse
from pprint import pprint
import numpy as np
import ephem
import datetime
import random
from math import sin, cos, pi, asin, radians as rad,degrees as deg  
import time
from time import sleep
import os
import logging
import serial
import subprocess as sp

# dict for figures
figdict={'0010': ['Puer','Mars','Fire','Aries','+','Boy, yellow, beardless'], '0101': ['Amissio','Venus','Earth','Taurus','-','Loss, comprehended without'], '1101': ['Albus','Mercury','Air','Gemini','-','White, fair'], '1111': ['Populus','Moon','Water','Cancer','-','People, congregation'], '1100': ['Fortuna Major','Sun','Fire','Leo','+','Greater fortune, greater aid,safeguard entering'], '1001': ['Conjunctio','Mercury','Earth','Virgo','+','Conjunction, assembling'], '0100': ['Puella','Venus','Air','Libra','+','A girl, beautiful'], '1011': ['Rubeus','Mars','Water','Scorpio','-','Red, reddish'], '1010': ['Acquisitio','Jupiter','Fire','Sagitarrius','+','Obtaining, comprehending without'], '0110': ['Carcer','Saturn','Earth','Capricorn','+','A prison, bound'], '1110': ['Tristitia','Saturn','Air','Aquarius','-','Sadness, damned, cross'], '0111': ['Laetitia','Jupiter','Water','Pisces','-','Joy, laughing, healthy, bearded'], '0001': ['Cauda Draconis','Saturn & Mars','Fire','Scorpio','-','The threshold lower, or going out'], '1000': ['Caput Draconis',' Jupiter & Venus','Earth','Capricorn','+','The Head, the threshold entering, the upper threshold'], '0011': ['Fortuna Minor','Sun','Fire','Leo','-','Lesser Fortune, lesser aid, safeguard going out'], '0000': ['Via','Moon','Water','Cancer','+','Way, journey']}

roman=['0','I','II','III','IV','V','VI','VII','VIII','IX','X','XI','XII','XIII','XIV','XV','XVI']

#mapped to Crowley
crowley=['0','X','I','IV','VII','XI','II','V','VIII','XII','III','VI','IX','XIII','XIV','XV','XVI']

def inttodot(integer):
    """
    Convert an integer to divination dots, two dots if the integer
    is even, one if odd, two if zero

    Takes an integer argument, returns a string of two dotchars or
    one

    """
    dotchar = "*"
    if integer % 2 == 0:
	dot = dotchar * 2
    else:
	dot = dotchar + " "  # The addition of a space helps the
			     # final diagram line up

    return dot

def oddoreven(integer):
    if integer % 2 == 0:
	dot = 1
    else:
	dot = 0
    return dot

def domothers():
    """ Append binary representation 0 as O/odd, 1 as OO/even
    """
    motherlist=[]
    for x in range(4): 
	binrep=[]
	for body in range(4): 
	    binrep.append(oddoreven(darknn[(x*4)+body]))
	motherlist.append(binrep)
#    print motherlist
    return motherlist

def dodaughters(motherlist):
    daughterlist=[]
    body=zip(*motherlist)
    for parts in body:
	daughterlist.append(parts)
    return daughterlist

def madd(x,y):
    return int(not(x ^ y))    

def donephews(mlist,dlist):
    nlist=[]
    nlist.append([madd(mlist[0][0],mlist[1][0]),madd(mlist[0][1],mlist[1][1]),madd(mlist[0][2],mlist[1][2]),madd(mlist[0][3],mlist[1][3])])
    nlist.append([madd(mlist[2][0],mlist[3][0]),madd(mlist[2][1],mlist[3][1]),madd(mlist[2][2],mlist[3][2]),madd(mlist[2][3],mlist[3][3])])
    nlist.append([madd(dlist[0][0],dlist[1][0]),madd(dlist[0][1],dlist[1][1]),madd(dlist[0][2],dlist[1][2]),madd(dlist[0][3],dlist[1][3])])
    nlist.append([madd(dlist[2][0],dlist[3][0]),madd(dlist[2][1],dlist[3][1]),madd(dlist[2][2],dlist[3][2]),madd(dlist[2][3],dlist[3][3])])
    return nlist

def dowitnesses(nlist):
    wlist=[]
    wlist.append([madd(nlist[0][0],nlist[1][0]),madd(nlist[0][1],nlist[1][1]),madd(nlist[0][2],nlist[1][2]),madd(nlist[0][3],nlist[1][3])])
    wlist.append([madd(nlist[2][0],nlist[3][0]),madd(nlist[2][1],nlist[3][1]),madd(nlist[2][2],nlist[3][2]),madd(nlist[2][3],nlist[3][3])])
    return wlist

def dojudge(wlist):
    jlist=[]
    jlist.append([madd(wlist[0][0],wlist[1][0]),madd(wlist[0][1],wlist[1][1]),madd(wlist[0][2],wlist[1][2]),madd(wlist[0][3],wlist[1][3])])
    return jlist

def dorec(jlist,mlist):
    rlist=[]
    rlist.append([madd(mlist[0][0],jlist[0][0]),madd(mlist[0][1],jlist[0][1]),madd(mlist[0][2],jlist[0][2]),madd(mlist[0][3],jlist[0][3])])
    return rlist

def drawit(listere):
    """ run thru list and print whole list line by line"""
    # must reverse listy
    listy=list(listere)
    listy.reverse()
    body=zip(*listy)
    for parts in body:
	for part in parts:
	    if part==1:
		print "        O O   ",
	    else:
		print "         O    ",
	print

numeral=0

def drawfig(body):
    for part in body:
	if part==1:
	    print "        O O   ",
	else:
	    print "         O    ",
	print


def lookfig(figure):
    # convert list to string
    key=''.join(str(e) for e in figure)
#    return (' '.join((roman[numeral]+". GD:",crowley[numeral]+".",figdict[key][0],figdict[key][2],figdict[key][5])))
    return (' '.join((figdict[key][0],": ",figdict[key][2],figdict[key][5],figdict[key][4])))


# list quotations
alchquotes = [
"Two Stars are given by the Gods to man to lead him to great wisdom. Gaze steadily upon them, follow their lights, and you will find in them the secret of knowledge.",
"Let the waters above the heavens fall\nand the earth will yield its fruit",
"A serpent and a toad coming up above the earth, a flying eagle",
"Serpents et Bufo gradiens super terram, Aquila volans",
"The red man here to his white wyfe,\nYs maryed with the spryte of life",
"Prima Materia Anima Corpus",
"A King on the left side and a Queen on the right standing in an open landscape.",
"The King holds a sceptre in his right hand and the Queen holds a three-blossomed flower in her right hand and a peacock feather fan in her left.",
"In front of the King a wolf or jumps over a triangular crucible placed on a basin of fire.",
"In front of the Queen, an old man with a scythe and crippled leg (a Saturn figure) steps across a fire on which a vessel (Cupel) is being heated.",
"There is one stone, one medicine, one vessel, one method, one disposition.",
"In our water all modes of things are brought about...\nIn the said water they are made as in an artificial vessel, which is a mighty secret.",
"The eagle flying through the air and the toad crawling on the ground are the magistry.",
"Join together an earthly toad and a flying eagle; you see the magesterium in our art.",
"To make the body spiritual, to make the spirit corporeal and consubstantial and fixed with the body; and to cleanse the filthie originall.",
"Let my friend know that no impure or spotted things are useful for our purpose.",
"Refuse the air below the earth rises\nand the sky will not withold its decay.",
"I tell you that they have reinvented geology in order to impose a new idea of god.",
"A contrary element, namely earth, whereon alone it moves by slow steps, and does not trust itself to another element.",
"Its head is very heavy and gazes at the earth\nit is firm and solid\nUpon it as a foundation the Golden House is to be built.",
"There are three diagrams or emblems.",
"When I had emptied to the dregs the cup of human suffering, I was led to consider the wretchedness of this world, and the fearful consequences of our first parents' disobedience.",
"EVERYTHING in existence necessarily has a body. The mode and manner may be understood as being like a smoky spirit, which indeed has substance, but is not a body, nor is it tangible.",
"SUN, CISCO, DELL, PENTIUM-4, DDR-4, SATA, SCSI, DIGITAL, PDP, ASTRATA, GLENCORE",
"LAIR, shrine, knife, circle, lighter, fire, beer, SUN microsystems, tunnel, stain, keyboard, AMD-Acid Mine Drainage.",
"Cracked snow white as a binary one or zero against the darkness.",
"Death may come before earth and love.",
"No more fruit, no more trees, no more vegetables, no more plants pharmaceutical or otherwise and consequently no more food.",
"The Rite of the Black Sun.",
"Spiritus, Anima, Corpus.",
"The true antimony of the philosophers lies in the deep sea, that the son of the king may lurk submerged.",
"We will suppose that the computer works in such a dissolutory manner that he never does more than one step at a sitting.",
"Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying (correcting or purifying) what you find there, you will discover the hidden stone.",
"... a Turing machine M could be constructed that would respond to a set of quintuples on its tape by printing | if and only if the machine defined by that set of quintuples never prints | when started with its own set of quintuples. Now, what happens when M is started with its own set of quintuples on its tape?",
"Of the black earth, wherein the seven planets took root.",
"The deep is its clothing, above it shall stand water, air, fire, and the birds of the air shall dwell therein, watering it from the upper elements, that it may be filled with the fruit of their works, because in the centre of the earth the seven planets took root, and left their virtues there, wherefore in the earth is water germinating divers kinds of colours and fruits and producing bread and wine that cheereth the heart of man.",
"When thou hast water from earth, air from water, fire from air, earth from fire, then thou fully and perefectly possess our art.",
"... and the earth hath been polluted and defiled in my works; for there was darkness over it, because I stick fast in the mire of the deep and my sustance is not disclosed.",
"... that the element of earth is not earth only, but a grape as well, that the element of water is not water only, but a mineral as well.", 
"This man of copper whom you have seen is the sacrificial priest and the sacrifice and he who vomited out his own flesh. To him was given authority over the water and over those men in mortification.",
"by such a dissolution and sublimation, the spirit is converted into a body and the body into a spirit.",
"One serpent holds in his mouth the tail of the other, to show that they are indissolubly conjoined by community of birth and destiny, and that our art is accomplished by the joint working of this mercurial sulphur, and the sulphurous mercury.",
"Take the flying bird and drown it flying, and divide it and separate it from its pollutions. Draw it forth and repel it from itself.",
"Wherefore, let our body remain in the water till it is dissolved into a subtile powder in the bottom of the vessel and the water, which is called the black ashes; this is the corruption of the body which is called by the philosophers or wise men, Saturnus plumbum philosophorum, and pulvis discontinuatus, viz. saturn, latten or brass, the lead of the philosophers the disguised powder. And in this putrefaction and resolution of the body, three signs appear, viz., a black color, a discontinuity of parts, and a stinking smell, not much unlike to the smell of a vault where dead bodies are buried. These ashes then are those of which the philosophers have spoken so much which remained in the lower part of the vessel, which we ought not to undervalue or despise; in them is the royal diadem, and the black and unclean argent vive, which ought to be cleansed from its blackness, by a continual digestion in our water, till it be elevated above in a white color, which is called the gander, and the bird of Hermes. He therefore that maketh the red earth black, and then renders it white, has obtained the magistery. So also he who kills the living, and revives the dead. Therefore make the black white, and the white black, and you perfect the work.",
"The earth is cold and dry, cold and moist, warm and dry, warm and moist. This is how matters stand. Whatever thing which is warm and dry grows out of the earth, grows out of that which in the earth is warm and dry. Whatever is or is produced cold and moist, is produced from that in the earth which is of a similar nature.",

]

darknn=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
count=0
ready=1
darkness=0
temperature=1.0
turing_states=["write 0", "write 1", "read 0", "read 1"]
data=""
# where is arduino on serial?  pass as argument
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="serial")
# add expected arguments
parser.add_argument('--port', dest='port', required=True)
args = parser.parse_args()
ser = serial.Serial(args.port, 9600,    parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,\
    stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,\
    bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS,\
timeout=1)
sleep(3)

g = ephem.Observer()  
g.name='DISS'  
g.lat='45.5270833'  #PDS
g.long='-73.5952694'
g.horizon=0
g.elevation=68

# init geomantics/ephem
sun = ephem.Sun()
moon = ephem.Moon()  
reg= ephem.star("Regulus")
corvus= ephem.star("Gienah Corvi")
degrees_per_radian = 180.0 / pi

tmpos=0 # middle - or do we get pos from arduino?
cdrompos=0
# startup: tell arduino to zero Tm motor - middle

# new calibration code
ser.write("M") # middle

# read darkness to get average
for x in range(16):
    ser.write("L")
    ser.write("L")
    ser.write("L")
    ser.write("L")
    ser.write("L")
    ser.flushOutput()
    ser.flushInput()
    ser.write("Q")
    sleep(1)
    try:
	line = ser.readline()
	data = [val for val in line.split()]
#        ser.flushInput()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
	print('exiting')

    # if data is longer than 1
    if len(data)>0:
#        if isinstance(data[0],int):
	try:
	    darkness=int(data[0]) # darkness
	except:
	    darkness=0
	darknn[count]=darkness
	count+=1
count=0
threshold=sum(darknn)/len(darknn)

ser.write("P") # zero TM stepper <
# zero cdrom motor
ser.write("Z") 

# try and port in TM
# init TM
# we need to write TAPE first...

prog = [[(1, +1, 1), (1, +1, 0)],           # state 0
	[(0, -1, 2), (1, +1, 1)],           # state 1
	[(0, +1, 2), (0, +1, 9)]]           # state 2
tape = [1,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,0]                  # The data tape
head = 0                                    # head position on tape
state = 0                                   # instruction pointer

# threshold = 60

# write tape
for things in tape:
    if things==0:
	# write zero
	ser.write("E")
    else:
	ser.write("W")
    ser.write("R") # move right
    sleep(1)
# zero head
ser.write("P") # zero TM stepper 


while(1):
    # request data
    ser.flushOutput()
    ser.flushInput()
    ser.write("Q")
    sleep(.1)
    try:
	line = ser.readline()
	data = [val for val in line.split()]
#        ser.flushInput()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
	print('exiting')

    # if data is longer than 1
    if len(data)>0:
#        if isinstance(data[0],int):
	try:
	    darkness=int(data[0]) # darkness
	except:
	    darkness=0
#        if isinstance(data[1],float):
#            temperature=data[1]/10.0 # temperature
	# record 16 darkness values for geomancy
	darknn[count]=darkness
	count+=1
	if count==16:
	    count=0
	    ready=1

    # test code
#    darkness=random.randint(0,512)
    darknn[count]=darkness
    count+=1
    if count==16:
	count=0
	ready=1

    tmp = sp.call('clear',shell=True)

    print "                          TEST EXECUTION HOST"
    print "                          +++++++++++++++++++"
    print "Decoding ancient alchemical texts and emblems as (literal) instructions for the construction, execution and maintenance of a contemporary, geomantic and necessarly ouroboric live processor."
    #    print time
    print
    print random.choice(alchquotes) # or this choice is dependent of darkness!

    # print registers - 
    print "     Digester temperature: disconnected Darkness: %d Threshold: %d" %(darkness, threshold)

    print "     Turing Machine Status:"

    # run TM:

    if state==9:
	head=0
	state=0

    #    symbol = tape[head]                         # read current tape symbol - read dark or light
    if darkness>threshold:
	symbol=1
    else:
	symbol=0

    #    symbol=random.randint(0,1)
    symbol, dir, state = t = prog[state][symbol] # lookup instruction
    print "        ",
    print(tape)
    print "        ",
    print(' ' * (head * 3 + 1)+ '^  ' + str(t)) # display progress
    if head>=len(tape):
	tape.append(symbol)
    else:
	tape[head] = symbol                         # write new symbol on tape - write dark or light
    if symbol==0:
	# write zero
	ser.write("E")
    else:
	ser.write("W")
    head = head + dir                           # move tape head 
    if dir==1:
	ser.write("R")
    else:
	ser.write("L")

    # if head is too far over or left then move to middle - 
    if head<0:
	ser.write("M")
	head=200 # what is middle? 1800/4 = 400 say        
    if head>400:
	ser.write("M")
	head=200 # what is middle? 1800/4 = 400 say        
    # planet calculations and plots

    g.date = datetime.datetime.utcnow()# 

    reg.compute(g)
    print "REGULUS:",
    print ephem.localtime(g.date), deg(reg.az),deg(reg.alt)

    corvus.compute(g)
    print "CORVUS - Gienah Corvi:",
    print ephem.localtime(g.date), deg(corvus.az),deg(corvus.alt) # wrong localtime is set here on laptop - IGNORE!

    # plot the planets...
    # we have altitude and azimuth - horizon [------------------------] where to where? orient to 0 north in PDS
    # say 80 lines across for azimuth = round 360/80=/4.5 but we just want 180 = /9
    # say 10 lines for altitude (range 0to90) = /2.25

    # REGULUS - check/TEST!
    print
    print "REGULUS position: az/alt"
    # degrees is starting at 304 [wrap 360] to 124 (180
    # for back wall - for front window we do 120 to 300 say
    degg=deg(reg.az)
    if degg>120 and degg<300: # upto 300 - 180
	xcoord=int((degg-120)/2.25)
    else:
	xcoord=-1

    if deg(reg.alt)>0.0: 
	ycoord=np.ceil(deg(reg.alt)/9.0)
    else: 
	ycoord=-1 # below horizon
    print xcoord,ycoord

    for y in range(10):
	print"|",
	if (10-ycoord)==y:
	    if xcoord>0:
		for x in range(xcoord):
		    print "",
		print "O"
	else:
	    print
    print"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
    print
    print "CORVUS - Gienah Corvi position: az/alt"
    # same as above
    degg=deg(corvus.az)
    if degg>120 and degg<300: # upto 300 - 180
	xcoord=int((degg-120)/2.25)
    else:
	xcoord=-1

    if deg(corvus.alt)>0.0: 
	ycoord=np.ceil(deg(corvus.alt)/9.0)
    else: 
	ycoord=-1 # below horizon
    print xcoord,ycoord

    for y in range(10):
	print"|",
	if (10-ycoord)==y:
	    if xcoord>0:
		for x in range(xcoord):
		    print "",
		print "O"
	else:
	    print
    print"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
    print

    # Planet-light HOW? 
    # if is above horizon in our 180 degrees then move according to...
    # arduino commands: move up/darken =N, down/lighten=n, zero=Z
    # note that DOWN is more LIGHT

    # test code with the sun!
    sun.compute(g)
    moon.compute(g)

    # divide degrees of corvus to extent which is 170 - extent is depending ON VOLTAGE!
    # this is position we need to get to (inverted) 170-cdrompos
    # if we run to zero then do this as explicit Z
    # TODO: was corvus
    if deg(sun.alt)>0.0: 
	wherepos=200-(np.ceil(deg(sun.alt)*6.0)) # 30 degrees and we 200 incs
    else:
	wherepos=200

    # go there
    print "SUN:", deg(sun.alt), 
    print "MOON:", deg(moon.alt) 
#    wherepos=200

    if wherepos==0:
	ser.write("Z")
	cdrompos=0

    while wherepos>cdrompos:
	ser.write("N")
	cdrompos+=1

    while wherepos<cdrompos:
	ser.write("n")
	cdrompos-=1

    # run geomantics
    # house = VIII. Death/Mortis - The House of Slaughter and Death: Heaviness, sadness, enemies, long torments, imprisonment, and the quality of death.
    # this would be the 4th daughter
    if ready==1:
	mlist=domothers()
	dlist=dodaughters(mlist)
	ready=0
    print "House = VIII. Death/Mortis - The House of Slaughter and Death: Heaviness, sadness, enemies, long torments, imprisonment, and the quality of death."
    # take the fourth daughter and explain/display this
    chosen=dlist[3]
    print lookfig(chosen) # TODO: clean up a bit but works
    drawfig(chosen)
    sleep(20)

ser.close()

16.1 Circulation: Extraction and (Earth) Return workshop with Martin Howse

16.2 Call for discarded data