Renaissance magic
Robert Fludd
English physician and alchemical philosopher whose macrocosm–microcosm diagrams became some of the most recognisable images in Western esoteric history.
- Dates
- 1574 – 1637
- Dating
- documented dates
- Died
- London
The life
A defender of Rosicrucian ideas at the moment they were most controversial.
Place in the tradition
God, light, darkness, music, anatomy, cosmology, mathematics and correspondence are drawn as one universal order — and the drawing is the argument.
the written record
Principal works
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volumes from 1617 into the 1620s
History of the Two Worlds
Utriusque Cosmi Historia
An illustrated encyclopaedia in which the greater world and the human body mirror one another.