Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance: Second Revised Edition - Softcover

Huffman Ph.D., William H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1795592419 ISBN 13: 9781795592413

Verlag: Independently published, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Robert Fludd was a "Renaissance Man" in the true meaning of the name. During his lifetime, he was well known to his medical colleagues, high gentry and clergy. in England and the Continent, and Kings James I and Charles I. His lasting legacy, of which he was most proud (beyond his family heritage), is his remarkable voluminous publications. In hundreds of folio pages, with striking copperplate illustrations of his own design, he incorporated the entirety of creation, from the heavenly to the earthly, into a comprehensive schematic system which was organized according to exacting harmonic scales from the highest to the lowest realms. He graphically shows man's arts, science and medicine, where we become the "Ape of Nature," and shows how we contract disease and how to treat such maladies. His grand summation of this tradition came at the end of the classic Renaissance during the seventeenth century,

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1795592419
• ISBN 13: 9781795592413
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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