Editing Robert Fludd (section)

===Against the natural philosophers===
[[File:Fludd summum bonum.jpg|thumb|Titlepage of the ''Summum Bonum'' under the name of Joachim Frizius]]

According to Brian Copenhaver, "Kepler accused Fludd of being a [[Theosophy (Boehmian)|theosophist]], and Kepler was right". Fludd was well-read in the tradition coming through [[Francesco Giorgi]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Daniel Garber|author2=Michael Ayers|title=The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPlkkgIhUXIC&pg=PA465|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-53720-9|pages=464–5}}</ref> [[Marin Mersenne]] attacked him in ''Quæstiones Celebres in Genesim'' (1623).

* ''Sophiæ cum Moria Certamen'', Frankfort, 1629. Reply to Mersenne.
* ''Summum Bonum'', Frankfort, 1629. Under the name Joachim Frizius, this was a further reply to Mersenne, who had accused Fludd of magic.<ref name=DNB/>

[[Pierre Gassendi]] took up the controversy in an ''Examen Philosophiæ Fluddanæ'' (1630). This was at Mersenne's request. Gassendi attacked Fludd's [[neo-Platonic]] position. He rejected the syncretic move that placed [[alchemy]], [[cabbala]] and Christian religion on the same footing; and Fludd's ''[[anima mundi]]''. Further he dismissed Fludd's [[biblical exegesis]].<ref name=DNB/><ref>{{cite book|author=Antonio Clericuzio|title=Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8f8VQ3Va5vkC&pg=PA71|year=2000|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-6782-6|pages=71–2}}</ref>

Fludd also wrote against ''The Tillage of Light'' (1623) of [[Patrick Scot]]; Scot like Mersenne found the large claims of [[hermetic alchemy]] to be objectionable.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce Janacek|title=Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NFHapWeW8ToC&pg=PA45|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-05014-0|pages=45–54|date=2012-06-19}}</ref> Fludd defended alchemy against the criticisms of Scot, who took it to be merely allegorical. This work, ''Truth's Golden Harrow'',<ref name="William H. Huffman 146"/> remained in manuscript.<ref name="Debus, p. 255"/>