Fludd (Robert) Mosaicall Philosophy: Grounded upon the

Fludd (Robert) Mosaicall Philosophy: Grounded upon the Essentiall Truth or Eternal Sapience, 2 parts in 1, first English edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations, head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking A1 (blank), previous owner's ink signatures to title, faint abrasion where ink-stamp removed and small loss to top corner, occasional ink underlining, small loss to fore-edge of N1 and bottom edge of 2P1, small paper label to front pastedown, abrasion mark to front pastedown where label removed, occasional faint spotting, light browning as usual, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, bumping and small loss to spine extremities, [Wing F1391], small folio, for Humphrey Moseley, 1659.

⁂ The greatest occult mind of the English Renaissance, Fludd was the premier representative of the Rosicrucian philosophy in England, deeply versed in both Neoplatonic and Kabbalistic thought. He was a Paracelsian physician of considerable prominence in London circles, and he is thought to have influenced William Harvey's conception of the heart and blood. A devout Christian, Fludd deemed himself a "Mosaicall Philosopher' insofar as his thinking was grounded in the spiritual and physical principles divinely revealed to Moses. As with most of Fludd's works, the Mosaicall Philosophy combines both scientific and occult thought; and Fludd here details his experiments with th weather-glass and the magnetic lodestone to demonstrate the divine spiritual principles at work in nature. Even today, the Mosaicall Philosophy is the only major work of Fludd to have been translated into English. Rare and important.