Robert Fludd: Essential ReadingsWilliam Huffman Renaissance man, Elizabethan philsopher, and scholar Robert Fludd sought to integrate the whole of human knowledge within a divine and hierarchically ordered cosmology. After completing his education at Oxford University, he journeyed throughout Europe seeking the knowledge of mystics, scientists, musicians, physicians, and alchemists, leading to the publication of many historically influential works on science, medicine, and philosophy. |
Contents
List of Illustrations Page | 9 |
Dr Fludds Answer unto M Foster Page 177 | 13 |
1 | 40 |
The Technical Physical and Metaphysical History of | 58 |
THE MIDDLE houses of the Wandering | 76 |
3 | 82 |
4 | 93 |
A Philosophical Key Page | 100 |
5 | 119 |
Truths Golden Harrow | 146 |
Mosaicall Philosophy Page | 214 |
Bibliography Page | 253 |
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