Of Both Worlds

Namely, the METAPHYSICAL, PHYSICAL, AND TECHNICAL HISTORY of the GREATER as well as the LESSER WORLD

Divided into two Volumes according to the difference of the WORLD.

BY THE AUTHOR ROBERT FLUDD, also known as de Fluctibus, Esquire and Doctor of Medicine of Oxford.

Volume One

Concerning the History of the Macrocosm The "Macrocosm" refers to the great world or the entire universe., divided into two treatises.

Of which

The first concerns

The Metaphysical origin of the Macrocosm and its Creatures.
The Physical progress of the Macrocosm in its generation and corruption.

The second concerns the Art that Mimics Nature original: "Arte Naturæ Simia" — literally "the ape of nature," a common Renaissance concept where human art and technology imitate the natural creative processes of God., produced within the Macrocosm and therein nourished and multiplied; whose principal daughters we have here reviewed by a living anatomy, namely:

Arithmetic.
Music.
Geometry.
Perspective.
The Art of Painting.
Military Art.
The Science of Motion.
The Science of Time.
Cosmography.
Astrology.
Geomancy A method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand..

AT OPPENHEIM.

At the expense of JOHANN THEODOR DE BRY.

From the press of HIERONYMUS GALLER.

IN THE YEAR 1617