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The Microcosm

The Microcosm.jpg Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brainThumbnailsThe Anatomy of the Eye Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brainThumbnailsThe Anatomy of the Eye Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brainThumbnailsThe Anatomy of the Eye Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brainThumbnailsThe Anatomy of the Eye Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brainThumbnailsThe Anatomy of the Eye

The idea of a close parallelism between the structure of man and of the wider universe was gradually abandoned by the scientific, while among the unscientific it degenerated and became little better than an insane obsession. As such it appears in the ingenious ravings of the English follower of Paracelsus, the Rosicrucian, Robert Fludd, who reproduced, often with fidelity, the systems which had some novelty five centuries before his time.