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I've done some reading online, about the Waag building. Let me summarize some of the things I found.
First of all, the first stone was laid on the 28th of April in 1488. Back then it still was the St Antoniusgate. It was on of the gates into the city. So there was a city wall connected to it.
It was called after the St Antonius hospital that lay just outside of the city walls. It was a leper home.
In the 17th century the city of Amsterdam expended, thus losing the function of the former city wall, which then was demolished. At that point there was no use for the St Antoniusgate to be a gate into the city. With the loss of the wall and with the draining of some of the surrounding water, the Nieuw-Markt was created. Also the pavement was raised, obscuring the lower parts of the building.
Later on the old gate got a new function; the function of a Waag (weigh-building), this to lift some of the load of the former Waag at the Dam.
4 gildes were housed in the new Waag: the masons, the smiths, the painters and the surgeons. Each gilde had it's own entrance in 4 seperate side towers.
In 1690-91 a large dome was build upon it. There the surgeons held their 'anotomy sessions', which where open to the public as well, for a fee that is.

So that's it for a very short summary.

Furthermore I browsed through my own bookcase and picked out some of the books that might be used for further inspiration:
Encyclopaedia Anatomica - Museo La Specola Florence
HR Giger - H.R. Giger
Comic Art Now - Dez Skinn
Dream, A Journal by Larry Vigon - Larry Vigon
Paradise Lost - John Milton

Don't know yet if all these books will be usefull, but hey... at least it's something.
Yesterday and today I've been reading Paradise Lost. It just finished the introduction by the editor. And I already found some interesting stuff, that might be usefull for our story and interaction. Soon I'll write some more about that.
One quote (discussing the attributes of the Tree of Knowledge:
"Eve had no notion of death as extinction earlier in the poem. Can it be that the fruit has enlightened her? Some moght think that Milton has merely slipper here, but it is more likely that he is being subtle. Eve's acquisition of knowledge is consistent with what God says about the fruit. Eve and Adam gain knowledge, but not of God's creation. They gain knowledge of the darkness into which creation falls when it is deprived of God's goodness. Saint Augustine had argued that evil has no real existence but is only the privation of good. Adam and gain knowledge of privation. Put simply, the come to realize what is is that they have lost."
In that I think there might be some interesting principle. Good vs. Evil. More precise weither evil exists without good en vice versa. Milton also coines that the World (our universe) is created by God out of Chaos and that Chaos is dark and evil. So that contradicts Saint Augustinus argument.
Well... need to think it more over, to make something out of it, but just wanted to share this.

That's it for now.