CHAPTER XX.— Conclusion.

Fludd’s last Portrait — shows failure in health — His method of writing — Orders for his Funeral — Hies, 1637 — Funeral — Buried at Bearsted — Grave — Slab in floor — His Monument — Description — Inscription — Translation — Milgate Chantry — Window Glass — Described — House of Milgate — Fludd and Boehme — Fuller’s Eulogy — Apprecia- tion of Fludd’s life and works — Intensity of reverence — Cabalist — Intensity of thought — Society of Rosy Cross — Fludd and the Church of England — Sparrow’s Translation of Boehme — Hutchinson’s Theories — The “ Religio Exculpata,” other issues — Jennings’ and Waite’s Works — The last Representative of Fludd — Conclusion.
portrait of Fludd, engraved in the '' Integrum Morborum Mysterium ” (1631), indicates failing health and strength. He was consumed by his studies. In the intervals of business, the amanuensis, who was always ready, noted the thoughts given forth by his master, and though we are not told the cause of his death, it probably was a fever of exhaustion which had consumed the strength of life, and brought the ardent thinker to the grave. His departure was not unexpected. He had prepared for it by a careful arrangement of his worldly affairs, and had given exact orders as to his funeral and tomb. Fludd ‘‘ died unmarried on 8th Sep. 1637, at his house in the parish of St. Catherine, Coleman Street.” ^ “ When, attended by an
officer or herald at arms, his body was conveyed for burial to his native place,” ^ where we are informed that he had “ laid a stone for the purpose” of his grave. His place of rest in Bearsted Church is still marked by that stone. The “ Milgate Chantry ” is that part of the church included in
^ Die. Nat. Biog. , voct Fludd, _R. “ Munk, Roll of Physicians, i. 153.
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the eastmost portion of the north aisle. Tlie grave of Fludd is exactly at the foot of the present steps into the chancel at the north side. On the slab let into the stone floor is the following inscription : —
“ In Jesu qui mihi omnia in vita morte resurgam.”
Under this stone resteth the Body of Robert Fludd, Docter of Phisicke, who changed this transitory life for an imortall, the viii. day of September, Ao. Dni. mdcxxxvii., being Lxm yeares of age, whose Monu- ment is erected in this chancell according to the forme by him prescribed.”
Interior of Bearsted Church,
The monument, “ in the style of that of Camden at Westminster, with bust and long Latin epitaph, was erected, 10 August 1638, within the chancel rails at Bearsted by his nephew, Thomas Fludd, or Floyd, of Gore Court, Otham, Kent.” ^ This monument in marble, which formerly stood (apart altogether from the burial place) in the south wall of the chancel of Bearsted, just where the sanctuary steps begin to rise, represents Fludd in study. He has, on a
^ Die. Nat. Biog,, in voce.
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desk, an open book before him. The appearance of the face is much thinner than is represented in the engravings. The head is bald. The eyes and cheeks are sunken. But the idea given is not at all that of senile decay ; it is that of purification by suffering, by severe study and abstraction from earthly aims and objects. We are told that on the monument “ were representation in marble of eight books,” but these have been broken off with the exception of two, what are marked “ Mister ium Cabalisticum ” and “ Philoso- phia Sacra.” Running in a line down each side of the emblature, which contains the inscription, are rods of Esculapius. The Latin inscription is as follows : —
Sacrum Memoriae.
Claris: Doctissq: viri Roberti Fludd, alias “de Fluctibus,” utriusq Medicinae Doctoris, qui post aliquot annorum perigrinationem quam ad recipiendum ingenii cultum in transmarinas regiones faeliciter susceperat, patriae tandem restitutus et in celeberrinii Collegii Medicorum Londinensis Societatem non immerito electus vitam morte placide commutaxit viii die mensis vii bris A Dni. MDCXXXVii. aetatis suae lxiii.
Magnificis haec non sub odoribus urna vaporat
Crypta tegit ceneres nec speciosa tuos
Quod mortale minus tibi te committimus unum
Ingenii vivent hie monumenta tui
Nam tibi qui similis scribit moriturq sepulchrum
Pro tota eternum posteritate facit.
Hoc monumentum, Thomas Fludd, Gore Courte, in Otham, apud Cantianos Armiger in felicissimam charissimi Patrui sui n^emoriam orexit die x. mensis Augusti mdcxxxviii.
“ Sacred to the memory
of that most brilliant and n>ost learned man, Robert Fludd, alias De Fluctibus, doctor of both medicines, who, after several years’ travelling, which he had happily undertaken into regions beyond the sea for gaining the culture of genius, at length was restored to his country, and was, not undeservedly, elected to the society of the most distinguished College of Physicians of London. He calmly exclianged life for death on the 8th day of the month of September, An. Dom. 1637, in the 63rd year of his age.
No costly perfumes from this urn ascend,
In gorgeous tomb thine ashes do not lie,
Thy mortal part alone to earth we give,
The records of thy mind can never die.
For he who writes like thee — tho’ dead —
Erects a tomb that lasts for aye.
This monument, Thomas Fludd, of Gore Court, in Otham, in Kent Esquire, erected to the most happy memory of his very dear uncle, on the 10th day of the month of August 1638.”
Over the bust is an escutcheon bearing the following
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arms ; — 1. A chevron between 3 wolves’ heads erased. 2. 3 talbots courant. 3. Azure, a lion passant guardant, or.
4. Per fesse sable and argent, a lion (?) passant rampant.
5. Argent, a chevron gules, in chief 2 pheons fessewise, and
in base a pheon pointing upwards. 6. Sable, 3 horses’ heads (2 and 1), erased, argent. Crest — a bear’s head
couped at the shoulder, arising out of a ducal coronet. [Many of the colours have quite perished.] The whole coat of arms of R. F. is surcharged with a mullet for difference. Coat of arms and crest of Thomas Fludd, sen., per pale : — 1. 3 wolves’ heads erased between a chevron. 2. A bend cotised bearing 3 mullet. Colours perished. Crest — a
bear’s head, as Robert’s.
In the Milgate Chantry are two windows opening out to the north. These had been filled with stained glass, which has now entirely disappeared, with the exception of two small portions which remain in the small spaces at the tops of the two light intersections. The fragment in the window nearest the chancel represents what may be either the Flood of Noah or some part of a scheme of the creation of the world. From clouds issue rain streams. These descend into the waters below. The space in the other window answering to this is filled with a wreathing of white roses with 5"ellow centres. These poor fragments make us deeply regret that the other portions have disappeared.
The site of the house of Milgate, where Fludd was born, is now occupied by a more recent structure, although it is said that some small portion of the older mansion is built into it. The site is tlie same. Gore Court, the house of Fludd’s nephew, is quite near, although in the neighbouring parish of Otham. It is a delightful old mansion, with a lar^e Hall in the centre.”
What Fludd desci'ibed in his mother’s monument as the “ toilsome pilgrimage of life,” was now done.
There are some [joints of resemblance between him and Boehme, of whom we are told that he suddenly said
Window in Milgate Chantry, with remains of Stained Glass
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farewell, and, with a smile, exclaimed, ‘‘‘Now I enter Paradise.’ The supreme moment arrived — and the spirit was gone.”
Fuller’s description may be suitably placed here : — “ His books, written in Latin, are great, many, and mystical. The last some impute to his charity, clouding his high matter with dark language, lest otherwise the lustre thereof should dazle the understanding of the Reader. . . . His
works are for the English to sleight or admire, for French and Forraigners to understand and use ; not that I account them more judicious than our own countreymen, but more inquiring into such difficulties. The truth is, here at home, his Books are beheld not so good as chrystal, which (some say) are prizes as precious Pearls beyond the seas.
“ But I conclude all with the character which my worthy (though concealed) friend thus wrote upon him : — ‘ Lucabrationes quas solebat edere prefusissimas semper visus est plus sumere lahoris, quam Populares nostri vole- bant friCctum quia hunce fere negligebant, prse tedio legendi, et prejudicio quodam oleam perdendi opera mque ob CABALAM, quam scripta ejus dicebantur olere magis quam PERIPATUM, et ob ferventibus hominis ingenium, in quo plerique requirebant Judicium.’ ”
As a writer and expounder of a peculiar philosophy, Fludd stands unique. He lived at the parting of the ways in medicine and philosophy, and may be said to be the last of the older school whose medical art depended on astrology, and whose religious belief had as part of its foundation the geocentric theory. He is the last figure of a long and wondrous procession. Kepler, Mersenne, Gassendi, even Foster, are of the new race. The intensity of reverence which saw the hand of God in everything, and His sacred presence generating, preserving, and controlling all, in an absolute nearness and actual filling of all in all, was the key to Fludd’s character and writings. His very intensity is the cause oftimes of his involved and shadowy style. It is true that his later works are really a repitition and
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renewed explication of his “ Historia Cosmi.” His capability as the English Cabalist of his time will scarcely be dis- puted. His intensity of thought is, however, perhaps even greater than liis intensity of learning. His connection with the Rosicrucian controversy arose from the deep respect in which he he held his instructor, Michael Maier, and that cast of mind which saw wonders in Nature, which to most were but the outcome of common operation. That a society of the nature of the Rosy Cross existed, and that both Maier and Fludd were initiates, need not, I think, be now doubted by any disinterested students of the history of those wondrous sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What its origin may have been, we shall, I suppose, never know with any certainty, though there is some ground for supposing that it was in existence in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Its whole story is one of the most curious episodes in history.
The attachment and devotion of Fludd to the Church of England was fervid and complete. Travelling on the Continent in those years of life when the outward attrac- tion of the Church of Rome might be supposed to be greatest, these seemed to have had little or no interest for him. His admiration and friendship for several of the Bishops of England, including particularly Thornburgh and Abbot, was sincere and deep. Her system, orderly with ceremony “ decent and unreproved,” was to his mind the completeness of primitive practice and worship. To a mind like his, which in its intensity passed beyond intermediaries to “ things unseen,” found in Nature, rather than in church ceremony, the showings forth of the divine.
Fludd formed no school, and left no band of disciples who might hand on his opinions, and carry out his sugges- tions, and complete his work. It had become intensely individual. Those who had begun the study of Boehme s works found in that wonderful writer a satisfaction and a source of continual thought which Fludd did not supply. It is true that the Tractatus Theologo-Philosophicus ” is
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as warm in devout thought, hope, and love as any of Boehme’s works ; but the latter were both more accessible, and in their more complete theological nature more welcome, than Fludd’s equally religious but more philosophical and cumbi'uus volumes.
The great benefit given to English readers b}'' John Sparrow, “ Barrister of the Inner Temple, London,” in his translations of Boehme’s writings, must ever be remembered
with deep gratitude. His prefaces show that he resorted to mysticism as a refuge from sectarian religion.” Sparrow died after 1664. He had the co-operation of his kinsman, John Ellesteree, in bringing out this translation of BoehmeJ Spa.rrow says, in words which recall the studies of Fludd, “ The wise men of all nations did write darkly of their mysteries, not to be understood but by such as were Lovers of these things ; and so the very Scriptures them- selves, which conteine all things in them, cannot be understood but by such as love to follow, practice, and endeavour to do those things which they finde in them omrht to be done ; and in several Nations their wisdome hath had several Names, which hath caused our Age to take all the Names of the severall parts of Wisdome, and sort them into Arts ; among which the Magia and Cabala are accounted the most mysticall ; the Magia consisting in knowing how things have come to be ; and the Cabala in knowing how the Words and formes of Things express the Reality of the Inward Mystery ; but he that knoweth the Mystery, knoweth both these, and all the Branches of the Tree of Wisdom, in all Reall Arts and Sciences, and the true signification of every idea in every Thought and Thing and Sound and Letter in every Language.” The writer only longs that “ Love will cover all the Ends of the Earth, and the God of Love will give us His blessing of Peace all the world over, and then the King of Glory will dwell with men, and All the Kingdomes of the earth will be His. Who would not desire such a thing with me, The
^ Dicty. of Nat. Biog., in voce.
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imworthiest of the Children of Men, J. S. ?” ^ The con- nection which some have traced between Fludd’s opinions and those of Jolin Hutchinson, and tlie curious reprint of the “ Tractatus Apologeticus ” at Leipsic in 1782, will be more conveniently treated in two short appendices.
In 1684 appeared at Ratisbon, in 4to, a volume entitled “ Religio Exculpata, autore Alitophilo Religionis Huctibus dudum immerso, tandem . . . emerso.” The preface is
signed J. N. T. '' Though assigned to Fludd, this work wholly differs in character from his genuine productions.” ^ Fuller particulars will be found in an appendix. Fludd’s “ Tractatus Geomantia ” was also issued separately, “ in- cluded in Fasciculus Geomanticus, &c. Verona, 1687, 8vo.”^ The writer adds to this list the following: — '‘An unpublished manuscript copied by an amanuensis,” and headed, “ Declar- atio brevis,” &c., is in the British Museum, “ Royal MSS., 12, C. ii. ; the manuscript, 12, B. viii., which seems to have been another copy of this, with a slightly different title, has perished by fire.”
A word must be added here in regard to the republica- tion of epitomes of Fludd’s works and opinions by Mr Hargrave Jennings and Mr Waite. It is rather difficult to understand the ideas of the former writer, and it may perhaps be doubted if he has altogether understood the ideas and intentions of Fludd. He is so carried away at times as to lead ordinary readers to suppose that Fludd’s writings contained deeper mysteries than they really do. For Mr Waite’s excellent and thorough investigation, the present writer offers his best and most grateful thanks. That writer’s volume on the " Real History of the Rosi- crucians ” is beyond praise, and must ever be on the library table of the student who desires to understand and value these recondite subjects.
Canon Scarth, the present vicar of Bearsted, has
^ Preface to Boehine’s “ Three Principles,” 1648.
^ Die. Nat. Biog. , in voce, Fludd.
^ Die. Nat. Biog., in voce, Fludd.
R
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furnished me with the following note, showing once more the truth of Shakespeare’s saying : -
“ Imperious Csesar, dead, and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”
The last representative [of the Fludd family] was the widow of one. She kept a donkey-cart and sold sand, but was imprisoned for cruelty to the donkey ; and while she was in prison the magistrate gave the donkey the run of his little park.”
The real successors of a writer like Fludd will be found in those who, assimilating his thoughts, and their results, hand on to others the encouraging hope that a time will come when “ all the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”
APPENDIX I.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Note. — The references after tlie several entries are to F. A. Ebert’s “ General Bibliographical Dictionary,” 4 vols. Oxford, 1837. 8vo. No. 7701.
FLUDD (Robert.) Utriusque Cosmi | Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica | Atqve Technica l His- toria I In duo Voluniina secundum Cosmi diflerentiam diuisa. | Avthore Roberto Flud alias de Fluctibus, Armigero, | & in Medicina Doctore Oxoniensi. | Tomus Primus | De Macrocosmi Historia in duos tractatus diuisa. j
f
Quorum ^
V
Primus de
ducta I & in & multiplica
tomia
nempe.
Metaphysico Macrocosmi et Creaturau illius ortu.
Physico Macrocosmi in generatione & corruptione progressu.
Arithmeticain. Musicain. Geometriam. Perspectivam. Artem Pictoriam. Artem Militarem. Motus Temporis Cosmographiam. Astrologiam. Geomantiam.
Secundus de Arte Naturce | simia in Microcosmo pro- eo nutrita I ta, cujus-
Alias prajcipuas hie | ana-
viva recensuimus
Scientiam,
Oppenhemii. | Mve Johan-Theodori de Bry. | Typis Hieronymi Galleri | Anno cio lo cxvii [1617]. |
Fol. 12 in. Roman letter. Engraved title, A-Z^, Aa, Bb'^, Cc** ; (2) -I- 206 + (6) pp : — (1) engraved title, (2) blank, 1 dedication to God, 2 dedication to James I., King of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 contents, 4-206 the work, (1-6) index. Copperplate engravings in text. No. 1 of Ebert's list.
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Tractatus Secundus | De Natvrae Simia Seu | Tech- nica macrocosrai historia | in partes undecim di visa. | A V there | Roberto Fludd Alias De Fluctibus | armigero et in Medicina | Doctore Oxoniensi. |
In Nobili Oppenbeimio | Allre Johan-Theodori de Bry Typis Hierony- | mi Galleri. Anno Cio lo cxviii [1618]. I
Fol. 12 in. Roman Letter. A-Z“^, Aa-LF, Mm ( + 2* ‘ Haec pagina’)^, Nn-Zz'^, Aaa-Ggg^, Hhh^, lii-Zzz"^, Aaaa-Zzzz^, Aaaaa- Hhhhh^ ; 788 + (12) pp., 5 plates: — 1 engraved title, 2 blank, 3, 4, the author to the reader, 5-783 the work, 784 blank, 785-787 contents of the second voL, 788 the printer to the reader, (1-9) index, (10) errata, (11, 12) blank. Copperplate engravings in the text. The cancel leaf after p. 276 is not included in the paging, and pp. 409 to 412 are represented by four double plates so numbered. No. 2 of Eberfs list.
■ Tractatus Secundus, | De Natvrse Simia — seu Tech- nica macrocosmi historia, | in partes undecim divisa. | Authore | Roberto Flvdd Alias De | Fluctibus, armigero & in Medicina | Doctore Oxoniensi | Editio secunda. | Francoforti, | Sumptibus hoeredum Johannis Theo- dori I de Bry ; Typis Caspari Rotelii. | Anno M. DC. XXIV [1624]. [Emblematical engraving.]
Fob 13 in. Roman letter. A-Z^, Aa-Zz'^, Aaa-Ggg^, Hhh^, lii- Zzz^, Aaaa-Zzzz^, Aaaaa-Hhhhh'* ; 788 + (12) pp., 5 plates : — 1 title, 2 blank, 3-4 preface, 5-787 the work, 788 the printer to the reader, (1-9) index, (10) errata, (11-12) wanting, probably blank. Copperplate engravings in the text. Pages 409 to 412 are repre- sented by the four double plates, but only the last plate is numbered 412. Second edition of no. 2 of Ebert’s list.
Tomvs Secvndvs | De | Svpernatvrali, Na- | turali, Prmternatura- ] li Et Contranaturali \ Microcosmi historia, in | Tractatus tres distributa : | Authore | Roberto Find alias de Flucti- | bus Armigero & Medicinse Doc- | tore Oxoniensi. 1
Oppenhemij Impensis lohannis Tlieodorj | de Bry, typis Hierony mj Galleri 1619. |
Fob 12 in. Roman letter. Engraved title, A-Z'^, Aa-Mm^ ; (2) + 277 + (3) pp. : — (1) engraved title, (2) blank, 1 half-title, 2 blank, 3, 4 dedication to James I., King of Great Britain and Ireland, 5-15 Oratio gratulabunda, 16 contents of Tract I., 17 to the reader, 18 contents of Tract I., Sec. I., 19-277 the work, (1-3) blank. Copperplate engravings in the text.
No. 3 of Ebert’s list.
Tomi Seevndi | Tractatus Primi, | Sectio Secunda, |
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De teclinica Microcosmi historia, I in | Portiones vii. divisa. | An there | Roberto Find alias de Fluctibus | Arniigero & in Medicina Doctore Oxoniensi. | [Engrav- ing of emblems of various sciences.]
[? Oppenheim, ? 1620.]
Fol. 12 in. Roman letter, a-z^, aa^, bb*’ ; 191 + (13) pp. : — 1 title, 2 blank, 3-191 the work, (1) errata, (2-11) index, (12, 13) wanting, probably blank. Copperplate engravings in the text.
No. 4 of Ebert’’ s list.
Toini Secundi | Tractatus Secundus ; | De Praeternatu- I rali Utriusque \ Mundi Historia. | In Sectiones tres divisa, |
f Prima, de Meteororum tarn Macro, quam Micro- cosmico- I rum causis, earumque effectibus in genere agitur. |
Secunda, de particularibus Meteororum, tarn ad prospe- I ram, quam adversam valetudinem, impressionibus : de- | que indieijs ea prseterita. In Quarum-/ prfesentia, & futura praesagienti- | bus trac-
tatur. I
Tertia, pessimos & malesanos Meteororum eventus futu- I ros avertendi, praesentes ipsorum insul- tus debellandi, & | sanitatis denique pristinae jam amissae restituendae ratio | ad amussim ^ explicatur. |
Authore | Roberto Flvdd, alias de Fluctibus, Armigero, I & in Medicina Doct, Oxoniensi. | [Device.]
Francofurti | Typis Erasmi Kempfferi, | Sumptibus Joan. Theodori De Bry. | Anno M. DC. xxi [1621]. |
Fol. 12 in. Roman letter. A.R®, ; (12)-fl99 pp. -f(l) p., 1
plate : — (1) title, (2) blank, (3-11) and 1-199 the work, (i) blank. Copperplate engravings in the text. No. 5 of Ebert’’ s list.
- Veritatis Proscenium ; | in quo | Aulmum Erroris Tragicum Dimovetur, Si- | parium ignorantim scenicum complicatur, ipsaque veritas a suo | ministro in publi- cum producitur, | Seu | Demonstratio | Qusedam Analytica, | In Qua Cvilibet Comparationis Particvlse, In Ap- I pendice quadam a Joanne Kepplero, nuper in tine Harmoniae sum Mun- | danae edita ; factm inter Harmoniam suam mundanam, & illam Ro- | berti Fludd, ipsissimis veritatis argumeiitis re- | spondetur ; 1 Avthore | Roberto Fludd, alias de Fluctibus. | [Device.]
Francoforti, | Typis Erasmi Kempfferi, | Sumptibus Joan. Theodor. De Bry. | Anno M. DC. xxi [1621]. |
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Fol. 12 in. Roman letter. A-D®, S'*; 54 + (2) pp. : — 1 title, 2 blank, 3-54 the work, (1-2) missing, probably blank.
Xo. 6 of Ebert’s list.
Anatomise Ampliithea- | trvm Effigie Triplici, More | Et Conditione Varia, Designatvm | Anthore [ Roberto Fludd, alias de Fluctibus, Armigero & in Medicina D : Ox : I [Emblematical engraving.]
Francofurti Sumptibus lohannis Theodori de Bry 1628. I [The above on an engraved title. Followed by a letterpress title :]
Sectionis Prinise I Portio Tertia | De | Anatomia Triplici | In partes tres dinisa. |
Quarum
' Priori, Fanis ; Nutrimentum facile princeps ; ignis acie dissecatur, eius elementa, occiilteeque eorum proprietates | discutinntnr. |
f Vulgari sen visibili
Duabus secpientibus Homo, Nutritu di- j gnitate^ praecellentissimum sec- tione I Anatomise, bi- faria, videlicet vel |
vDiuiditur.
Mystica sen inuisibili
Avthore | Roberto Flvdd, Alias Flvctibvs, | armigero & in Medicina Doctore Oxo- | niensi. | [Device.]
Francofvrti, | Ex Typographia Erasmi Kemptferi. I Sumptibus loan. Theodor, de Bry. [ Anno M.DC.xxiii [1623]. I
Fol. 12 in. Roman letter. 2 leav^es unsigned, A-Z®, Aa-Dd®, Ee^; (4) + 331 pp. +(1) p. : — (1) half title, (2) blank, (3) engraved title, (4) portrait of J. T. de Bry, 1 letterpress title, 2 Portionis hujus tertiae subjectum, 3, 4 De exacta alitnenti panis, 5, 6 dedication to John Thornburgh, Bishop of Worcester, 7-10 preface, 11-285 the work, 286 blank, 287 title-page ; Monochordivm Mvndi | Symphoniacvm, [ Sev [ Replicatio | Robert! Find ... | , . . Ad Apologiam . . . | . . . loannis Kepleri . . . 288-290 preface, 291-331 Replicatio, (1) blank. Copperplate engravings in the text.
No. 7 of Ebert’s list.
■ Roberti Flvdd | alias | De Flvctibvs | Philosophia sacra & vere Christiana | Sen | Meteorologia | Cosmica. |
Francofurti prostat in Ofhciiia \ Bryana. | MDCXXVi [1626]. I
Fol. 12 in. Roman letter. ):(“*, A-Z4, Aa-Pp'^ ; (8) + 303 pp. +
(1) p. , 1 large folding plate : — (1) title, within an engraved border,
(2) blank, (3) another title beginning : Aer | Area Dei The- | savraria | Sev | Perspievvm Sanitatis et | Morborvm Specvlvm : j
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. . . (4) portrait of Robt. Fludd, (5, 6) dedication to John, Bishop of Lincoln, (7, 8) contents, 1-303 the work, (1) blank. Copper- plate engravings in the text. No. 8 of Ebert's list.
Medicina | Catbolica, | Seu | Mysticvm Artis Me- | dicandi Sacrarivm. | In Tomos diuisum duos. | In Qvibvs I Metaphysica Et Physica Tam Sanitatis | tuendse, qiiarn inorborum propulsandorum ratio | per- tractatur. | Avthore [ Roberto Flvdd ; alias De Flvcti- bvs, I Armigero, & in Medicina Doctore Oxoniensi. |
. . . [Motto. Device.]
Francofvrti, | Typis Caspari Rotelii, Impensis Wilhelmi Fitzeri. | Anno M.DC.xxix [1629]. |
B'ol 12 in. Roman letter. ):( ):(®, A-Z"*, Aa-Hh^ ; (24) +
241 + (7) pp : — (1) title, (2) blank, (3-5) dedication by R. Fludd to Gulielmus Padaeus, (6) blank, (7) contents, (8) hieroglyphic figure, (9-12) explanation of hieroglyphic figure, (13-22) Sanitas M3'- I sterium, | Seu | Tomi Primi Traeta | tvs Prim vs : | Mysti- ■ cvm Salvtis Propvgna- | cvlvm | Describens | . . . , (23, 24) preface, 1-241 the work, (1-7) index. Copperplate engravings in the text. No. 9 of Ebert's List.
- Pvlsvs I Seu I Nova Et Arcana | Pvlsvvm | Historia, E Sacro | Fonte Radicaliter | Extracta, Nec Non Medi-
I corvm Ethnicorvm Dictis | & autboritate comprobata.
I Hoc Est, I Portionis Terti^e Pars Tertia, — De Pvl- svvm Scientia. | Autbore Roberto Flvd [ Armigero, &; in Medicina Doctore Oxoniensi. | [Emblematical en- graving.] [? Frankfurt, ? 1629.]
Fob 12 in. Roman letter. AA-MM^ ; 93 + (3) pp., 1 large fold- ing table of three sheets pasted together, Medicamentosum Apollinis oracxdum. Typis Wfg. Hofmanni, 1630 : — 1 title, 2 contents, 3-93 the work, (1) epilogue (the catchword “ Medi-” at the foot of this page refers to the folding table, (2, 3) wanting, probabl}' blank. No. 10 of Ebert's list.
— Sopbise Cvm Moria Certamen, | In quo, | Lapis Lydivs A Fal- I so Structore, Fr. Ma- | rino Mersenno, Monacbo Repro- | batus, celeberrima Voluminis sui Babylonici (in | Genesin) figmenta accurate | examinat.
' . . . Autbore Roberto Fludd ; alias de Fluctibus, Armigero : & Doctore Medico | Oxoniense : Qui
calumniis & convitiis in ipsum a Sycopbanta Mersenno I iniectis, ad boc opus, contra pacificam naturm sum dispositionem, excitatur. | Isa. 7. 20, 21. [ [Quoted.]. . .
[Frankfurt,] Anno M.DCXXIX [1629]. |
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DOCTOR ROBERT FLUDD.
Fol. 12 in. Roman letter, a-p^ ; 118 + (2) pp. , 1 plate : — 1 title, 2 Latin verses to M. Mersennus, 3 contents, 4, 5 dedication to Wisdom, 6-10 to the reader, etc., 11-118 the work, (1, 2) index. Copperplate engravings in the text. No. W oj Ebert'' s list.
Svmmvm — Bonvm, I Quod est
{Magiae )
Cabalte > Veras
Alchymiae )
Fratrum Roseae Crucis i verorum /
l-Subjectum.
In dictarum Scientiarum laudem, & insignis caluiimia- toris Fratris — Marini Marsenni dedecus publicatum, | Per loachimvin Frizivm. — [Emblematical engraving.]
[Frankfurt,] Anno m.dc.xxix [1629]. |
Fol. 12 in. Roman letter. AA-GG“^ ; 53 pp. + (1) p : — 1 title 2 the printer to the reader, 3-53 the work, (1) index.
No. 12 of Eberts list.
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Integrvm | Morborvm | Mysterivm: | Sive | Medicinae Catholicse — Tomi Primi Tractatvs Se- | cundus, in Sectiones distributus duas; | Qvorvm 1 Prior generalem Morborum Naturam, siue variam Munimenti Salutis hostiliter inuadendi atq ; | oppugnandi rationem, more nouo & minime antea audito, siue intellecto describit. | Vltirna, vniuersale Medicorum siue intellecto describit.
I Yltima, vniuersale Medicorum siue .^grotorum de- pingit Catoptron : in quo Meteororum mor- | bosorum signa tarn Demonstratiua, quam Prognostica, lucide speculantur, & modo baud vul- | gari atque alieno plane designatur. | Avthore | Roberto Flvdd, alias De Flvcti- bvs, I Armigero, & in Medicina Doctore Oxoniensi. \ [Engravings of a sick man in bed.]
Francofvrti, Typis excusus Wolfgangi Hofmanni, Prostat in Officina Gviliel- | mi Fitzeri, Anno m.dc.