Adam and Eve — Albrecht Dürer (1504)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Albrecht Dürer's celebrated 1504 engraving of Adam and Eve. The serpent coils around the Tree of Knowledge between the two figures. Relevant to Tomberg's reading of the serpent's promise in Meditations on the Tarot Letter IX, where he constructs a scientific creed in parallel to the Nicene Creed and argues that empirical science delivers on the serpent's promise on the horizontal plane.