 The ancient opinion that man was Microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchemists, as if there were to be found in man's body certain correspondences and parallels, which should have respect...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 81by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...we have said, ascending a little higher ; the ancient opinion that man was microcosrmis, an ahstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically strained...as if there Were to be found in man's body certain correspond ' ences and parallels, which should have respect to all varieties of things, as stars, planets,... | |
 | john forbes m.d f.r.s. and john conolly m.d. - 1837 - 608 pages
...Bacon, " that man was microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world," and which he speaks of as having been " fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the...planets, minerals, which are extant in the great world." This manifest foreknowledge of Jahn's darling theory may, perhaps, not without advantage, induce him... | |
 | 1837 - 592 pages
...Bacon, " that man was microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world," and which he speaks of as having been " fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the...planets, minerals, which are extant in the great world." This manifest foreknowledge of Jahn's darling theory may, perhaps, not without advantage, induce him... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1837 - 712 pages
...thing observed in inorganic matter. This complexity and completeness of the human body almost justified the ancient opinion " that man was microcosmus, — an abstract or model of the world." For, dust and ashes as it is, who can survey the ruins of the human frame, the bare skeleton to * Lancet,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...LEARNING. To speak therefore of medicine, and to resume that we have said, ascending a little higher j the ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world, hath been fantasticallystrained by Paracelsus and the alchemists, as if there were to be found in man's body... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...tiling observed in inorganic matter. This complexity and completeness of the human body almost justified the ancient opinion "that man was microcosmus, — an abstract or model of the world." For, dust and ashes as it is, who can survey the ruins of the human frame, the bare skeleton to winch... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...that we have said, ascending a little higher: the ancient opinion that man tras 3 Of the common bond. microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world, hath...planets, minerals, which are extant in the great world. Hut thus much is evidently true, that of all substances which nature hath produced, man's body is the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...exact. To speak therefore of medicine, and to resume that we have said, ascending a little higher; the ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, an abstract...and the alchemists, as if there were to be found in man'8 body certain correspondences and parallels, which should have respect to all varieties of things,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...exact. To speak therefore of medicine, and to resume that we have said, ascending a little higher ; the ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, an abstract...been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchymists, as if there were to be found in man's body certain correspondences and parallels, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...resume that we have said, ascending a little higher ; the ancient opinion that man was microcosrnus, an abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchymists, as if there were to be found in man's body certain correspondences and parallels, which... | |
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