Diana said:
Ah Rusty: All that glitters is not gold, huh?
Georges Colleuil has done a lot of research on the Tarot with relation to the Mendeleiev Periodic Table. I must ask him if he cannot resume it briefly and ask permission to translate it for the pleasure of the Aeclecticians. Am dining with him next Sunday and will ask him if it's possible.
Thanks, Diana! That would be interesting indeed. To some extent, Crowley in _Book of Thoth_ has related tarot to physics and chemistry. I have always wanted to see a unified presentation with the Periodic Table of Elements. As regards alchemy and tarot, I find Alain Bocher's _Cahiers du tarot: Vol 1_ utterly fascinating.
There's one early 20th century Russian scientist (who was a Rosicrucian, if I remember correctly) - Vladimir Shmakov - who, in a book [whose Russian title I'd translate as "Holy Book of Thoth: The Great Arcana of the Tarot: The Beginning of a Synthetic Philosophy of Esotericism"] - no relation to Crowley's book) gives all sorts of equations and scientific connections as regards the major arcana of the Tarot. Shmakov is cited in the Anonymous Author's _Meditations on the Tarot_. I was curious how UA knew about him but I later found out that apparently the UA was originally from Russia.