Book on Fossil Objects, Stones, and Gems

...we suppose original: putamus; completing the thought from the previous page: "attribute 'form' to all natural things, as we suppose...", yet not to those alone: just as we attribute "form" not only to natural things—though that is more proper—but also to artificial objects; for instance, when a statue of a man is said to possess his "form." Therefore, things that are shaped and formed can be depicted in a painting; those which lack shape and form cannot, such as the elements and the "similar" or simple homeomeric original: τὰ ὁμοιομερῆ (ta homoiomerē); a term from Aristotelian physics referring to substances like stone or gold whose parts are the same as the whole. bodies, whether of this world or of individual mixed things. Each of these has its own proximate and proper elements: just as for a human, these are blood, phlegm, and both types of bile The "two biles" refer to yellow and black bile, which alongside blood and phlegm made up the four humors in ancient medicine..

In this entire book, we will provide several illustrations of the figures and forms of stones, fossil objects In the 16th century, "fossil" referred to anything dug out of the earth, including minerals, ores, and crystals, not just the remains of ancient life., and similar things. We will present some in various chapters, according as some items resemble other things, or are derived from different things that vary in form. In the present chapter, however, we will first deal with lines, as they are the foundations of figures; afterwards, we shall also discuss angles, which are formed by the meeting of two lines or two surfaces. Because