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Robert Fludd · 1659

Mosaicall Philosophy

Robert Fludd, the London physician and defender of the Rosicrucians, wrote his Philosophia Moysaica in Latin; it was printed at Gouda in 1638, the year after his death, and this English version followed in 1659. Fludd sets the 'Mosaicall' philosophy drawn from Scripture against the pagan philosophy of Aristotle, explaining creation through darkness and light, the divine spirit and the waters, condensation and rarefaction, and he uses his weather-glass to demonstrate how heat and cold, winds, clouds and thunder arise. The second section describes God as the soul animating all things and accounts for magnetism, sympathy and antipathy by occult irradiations, with many practical proofs. The text follows the EEBO-TCP transcription of the 1659 edition.

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Contents

  1. 1.Title page127 w.
  2. 2.To the judicious and discreet reader2,024 w.
  3. 3.Section I, Book 1, chapters 1–5: The weather-glass, and the experiment of it4,443 w.
  4. 4.Section I, Book 2: Of true and false wisdom and philosophy3,122 w.
  5. 5.Section I, Book 2, chapter 2: Of true and false wisdom and philosophy3,469 w.
  6. 6.Section I, Book 2, chapter 3: Of true and false wisdom and philosophy (part 1 of 2)3,979 w.
  7. 7.Section I, Book 2, chapter 3: Of true and false wisdom and philosophy (part 2 of 2)3,574 w.
  8. 8.Section I, Book 2, chapter 4: Of true and false wisdom and philosophy4,059 w.
  9. 9.Section I, Book 2, chapter 5: Of true and false wisdom and philosophy6,636 w.
  10. 10.Section I, Book 2, chapter 6: Of true and false wisdom and philosophy1,454 w.
  11. 11.Section I, Book 3, chapters 1–2: The Mosaicall principles: darkness, light and the waters4,527 w.
  12. 12.Section I, Book 3, chapters 3–5: The Mosaicall principles: darkness, light and the waters5,747 w.
  13. 13.Section I, Book 3, chapter 6: The Mosaicall principles: darkness, light and the waters4,036 w.
  14. 14.Section I, Book 4, chapters 1–2: The divine spirit, condensation and rarefaction, generation and corruption2,031 w.
  15. 15.Section I, Book 4, chapter 3: The divine spirit, condensation and rarefaction, generation and corruption5,848 w.
  16. 16.Section I, Book 4, chapters 4–5: The divine spirit, condensation and rarefaction, generation and corruption5,519 w.
  17. 17.Section I, Book 4, chapters 6–7: The divine spirit, condensation and rarefaction, generation and corruption5,942 w.
  18. 18.Section I, Book 5, chapters 1–2: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder (part 1 of 2)3,421 w.
  19. 19.Section I, Book 5, chapters 1–2: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder (part 2 of 2)3,768 w.
  20. 20.Section I, Book 5, chapters 3–4: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder5,195 w.
  21. 21.Section I, Book 5, chapter 5: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder5,469 w.
  22. 22.Section I, Book 5, chapters 6–9: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder4,659 w.
  23. 23.Section I, Book 5, chapter 10: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder2,109 w.
  24. 24.Section I, Book 5, chapter 11: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder5,739 w.
  25. 25.Section I, Book 5, chapters 12–13: Winds, clouds, fountains, lightning and thunder5,436 w.
  26. 26.Section II, Book 1, chapter 1: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things1,844 w.
  27. 27.Section II, Book 1, chapter 2: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things4,566 w.
  28. 28.Section II, Book 1, chapter 3: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things5,287 w.
  29. 29.Section II, Book 1, chapter 4: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things (part 1 of 3)6,087 w.
  30. 30.Section II, Book 1, chapter 4: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things (part 2 of 3)3,051 w.
  31. 31.Section II, Book 1, chapter 4: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things (part 3 of 3)3,029 w.
  32. 32.Section II, Book 1, chapter 5: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things (part 1 of 2)3,799 w.
  33. 33.Section II, Book 1, chapter 5: God, the soul of the world, and the spirits of all things (part 2 of 2)3,269 w.
  34. 34.Section II, Book 2, member 1, chapters 1–2: Mysticall irradiations6,475 w.
  35. 35.Section II, Book 2, member 1, chapter 3: Mysticall irradiations4,273 w.
  36. 36.Section II, Book 2, member 1, chapter 4: Mysticall irradiations6,428 w.
  37. 37.Section II, Book 2, member 1, chapter 5: Mysticall irradiations (part 1 of 2)3,809 w.
  38. 38.Section II, Book 2, member 1, chapter 5: Mysticall irradiations (part 2 of 2)3,942 w.
  39. 39.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 1: The magneticall nature and the loadstone2,946 w.
  40. 40.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 2: The magneticall nature and the loadstone (part 1 of 3)1,891 w.
  41. 41.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 2: The magneticall nature and the loadstone (part 2 of 3)2,832 w.
  42. 42.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 2: The magneticall nature and the loadstone (part 3 of 3)4,712 w.
  43. 43.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapters 3–4: The magneticall nature and the loadstone4,803 w.
  44. 44.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 5: The magneticall nature and the loadstone (part 1 of 3)3,911 w.
  45. 45.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 5: The magneticall nature and the loadstone (part 2 of 3)4,100 w.
  46. 46.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 5: The magneticall nature and the loadstone (part 3 of 3)3,510 w.
  47. 47.Section II, Book 2, member 2, chapter 6: The magneticall nature and the loadstone6,595 w.
  48. 48.Section II, Book 3, member 1, chapters 1–2: The admirable effects of sympathy5,852 w.
  49. 49.Section II, Book 3, member 1, chapters 3–6: The admirable effects of sympathy5,488 w.
  50. 50.Section II, Book 3, member 1, chapter 6: The admirable effects of sympathy (part 1 of 4)3,776 w.
  51. 51.Section II, Book 3, member 1, chapter 6: The admirable effects of sympathy (part 2 of 4)3,774 w.
  52. 52.Section II, Book 3, member 1, chapter 6: The admirable effects of sympathy (part 3 of 4)3,810 w.
  53. 53.Section II, Book 3, member 1, chapter 6: The admirable effects of sympathy (part 4 of 4)3,913 w.
  54. 54.Section II, Book 3, member 1, chapters 7–8: The admirable effects of sympathy3,462 w.
  55. 55.Section II, Book 3, member 2, chapters 1–3: The practice of antipathy; an apology; the conclusion5,766 w.