The Cosmogonic Experiments of Robert Fludd: A Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Author: Graham Burnett D.  

Publisher: Maney Publishing

ISSN: 1745-8234

Source: Ambix, Vol.46, Iss.3, 1999-11, pp. : 113-130

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Abstract

Experientia est etiam stultorum magistra, [but] I will stoop a little, for your better instruction, and more clear information, and elucidate and make plain the abstruse subject we have in hand, by some vulgar or occular demonstrations, which may guide them and persuade them to believe that which may otherwise seem uncredible. That I may therefore proceed more methodically, I will lay down…the chief platform, on which I propose to build such experimental conclusions, as shall direct the misbelievers…Robert FluddMosaicall Philosophy