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Integra Naturae Speculum Artisque Imago

Integra Naturae Speculum Artisque Imago

February 26, 2026
Source Utriusque Cosmi Historia — Robert Fludd (1618)
The trail Boethius Consolation of Philosophy → Song IX footnote → Plato's Timaeus on the World Soul → Fludd's Anima Mundi diagram
The passage
Linking accordantly its several parts, a soul of threefold nature, moving all. This, cleft in twain, and in two circles gathered, speeds in a path that on itself returns.

The complete image of Nature. A naked woman stands between God and a man on a rock. She mediates everything — the planetary spheres, the zodiac, the minerals, the animals, the liberal arts. The chain from her right hand connects to the divine name. The chain from her left connects to a man who thinks he is the center of the cosmos. She does not correct him.

Found by following footnotes: Boethius → Plato’s Timaeus → Fludd. The library grows from the inside out.

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