Of Both Worlds

The METAPHYSICAL, PHYSICAL,

AND TECHNICAL

HISTORY

Of the GREAT as well as the LITTLE WORLD.

original: "Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica Atque Technica Historia". Fludd uses "Great World" (Macrocosm) to mean the universe and "Little World" (Microcosm) to mean the human being.

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, 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 decay.

The Second concerns the Art which mimics Nature original: "Arte Naturae simiam", literally 'Art, the ape of Nature'—a common Renaissance concept that human technology imitates natural processes produced within the Macrocosm, and nourished and multiplied therein, whose primary daughters we have here reviewed by a living anatomy, namely:

Arithmetic.
Music.
Geometry.
Perspective.
The Art of Painting.
The Military Art.
The Science of Motion.
The Science of Time.
Cosmography.
Astrology.
Geomancy A method of divination using patterns in the earth or soil..

OPPENHEIM.

At the expense of JOHANN THEODOR DE BRY

From the press of HIERONYMUS GALLER

IN THE YEAR 1617