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drawn on the earth, ^yfj /j,auTsta) , nearly o7ie-fourth of the work 

 is thus occupied. In round numbers, one-fifth of the work 

 is devoted to the physical and metaphysical history of the 

 Macrocosm, and four-fifths to its technical history ; and of 

 the latter branch, about one-ninth of the work is occupied 

 by music, one-eleventh by military matters, about one-sixth 

 by arithmetic, and one -fortieth by optics. 



The other writings of Fludd, although numerous, need 

 occupy but little of our attention. In 1G19 the complement 

 of the ' Historia Macrocosmi ' was published at Oppenheim, 

 under the title of ' Tomus Secundus de supernaturali, natu- 

 rali, prseternaturali, et contranaturali microcosmi historia in 

 tractatus tres distributa.' In this work we find at the com- 

 mencement an oratio gratulahunda of considerable length 

 addressed to the Deity, and much occupied by quotations 

 from the Psalms and from Hermes Trismegistus ; it rises 

 here and there to a certain tone approaching sublimity. In 

 1624 Fludd published a bulky work entitled ' Philosophia 

 Sacra et vere Christiana seu Meteorologica Cosmica,' which 

 does not, however, differ in general character from the work 

 described above, and developes further the idea of the influ- 

 ence of supramundane upon mundane affairs. In 1623 he 

 published his ' Anatomise Amphitheatrum efifigie trij)lici,' in 

 the form of a folio of 285 closely-printed pages. It is full of 

 copper plates of various parts of the human body, dissected 

 and otherwise ; and the drawings are certainly as good as 

 any similar ones which I have seen of the same period. I 

 would specially draw the attention of those who may be inte- 

 rested in this subject to the ten figures representing the 

 dissection of the larynx (p. 145), also to the plates which 

 illustrate the anatomy of the brain. In this day astrology 

 was so intimately associated with the affairs of life that we 

 are not surprised to find, at the end of the ordinary ana- 

 tomical description of the various parts, a list of the planets 

 which influence those organs, and the conditions under which 

 they are influenced for good or for evil. There is also a 

 chapter entitled ' De Anatomia Mystica.' 



Among the last works which Fludd published were three 

 large folios, entitled ' Medicina Catholica, seu mysticum 

 artis medicandi sacrarium.' These were published in Frank- 

 fort, in 1629, 1630, and 1631, and the motto of the book is 

 Non est vivere seel valere, vita. In this work, more, perhaps, 

 than in any other, does Fludd employ hieroglyphics, such 

 as the astrologers delighted in ; we not unfrequently find 

 sentences which consist of two-thirds symbols and one-third 



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