Editorial Illustration: Hildegard von Bingen

Illustration for Issue Nº 16 of Principia Magazine focused on science and music. An article by Elisa Garrido about fascinating Hildegard von Bingen: German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and medical writer and practitioner from the Middle Ages. She is best-known as composer of sacred monophony and is considered by scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.