Editing Robert Fludd (section)

==Cosmology and other works==
[[File:Robert Fludd's An Astrologer Casting a Horoscope 1617.jpg|thumb|"An Astrologer Casting a Horoscope", from Robert Fludd's ''Utriusque Cosmi Historia'', 1617]]

Fludd's philosophy is presented in ''Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia'' (''The [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]], physical, and technical history of the two worlds, namely the greater and the lesser'', published in Germany between 1617 and 1621);<ref>Karsten Kenklies, ''Wissenschaft als Ethisches Programm. Robert Fludd und die Reform der Bildung im 17. Jahrhundert'' (Jena, 2005)</ref> according to [[Frances Yates]], his [[memory]] system (which she describes in detail in ''The Art of Memory'', pp.&nbsp;321–341) may reflect the layout of [[Shakespeare]]'s [[Globe Theatre]] (''The Art of Memory'', Chapter XVI).

In 1618, Fludd wrote ''De Musica Mundana'' (''Mundane Music'') which described his theories of music, including his mundane (also known as "divine" or "celestial") [[monochord]].<ref>[[Manly P. Hall]], ''The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian symbolical philosophy'' (H.S. Crocker Company, Inc., 1928)</ref>

In 1630, Fludd proposed many [[perpetual motion machine]]s. People were trying to patent variations of Fludd's machine in the 1870s. Fludd's machine worked by [[wikt:circulation|recirculation]] by means of a [[water wheel]] and [[Archimedean screw]]. The device [[pump]]s the water back into its own supply [[tank]].<ref>http://www.uh.edu/engines/pmm1.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>http://www.windmillworld.com/mills/images/fludd1618.gif {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref>

[[File:RobertFuddBewusstsein17Jh.png|thumb|upright|The spiritual brain, derived from cruder versions in predecessors, such as [[Albertus Magnus]] and [[Gregor Reisch]].<ref>[[Joscelyn Godwin]], ''Robert Fludd: Hermetic philosopher and surveyor of two worlds'' (1979), p. 70.</ref>]]
His main works are:<ref name=DNB/>
* ''Utriusque Cosmi ... metaphysica, physica atque technica Historia'', &c., Oppenheim and Frankfort, 1617–1624. (It has two dedications, first to the Deity, secondly to James I, and copperplates; it was to have been in two volumes, the first containing two treatises, the second three; it was completed as far as the first section of the second treatise of the second volume.)
* ''Philosophia Sacra et vere Christiana'', &c., Frankfort, 1626; dedicated to [[John Williams (archbishop of York)|John Williams]].
* ''Medicina Catholica'', &c., Frankfort, 1629–1631, in five parts; the plan included a second volume, not published.

Posthumous were:<ref name=DNB/> 
* ''Philosophia Moysaica'', &c., Gouda, 1638; an edition in English, ''Mosaicall Philosophy'', &c., London, 1659.
* ''Religio Exculpata'', &c. [Ratisbon], 1684 (''Autore Alitophilo Religionis fluctibus dudum immerso, tandem … emerso''; preface signed J. N. J.; assigned to Fludd).
* ''Tractatus de Geomantia'', &c. (four books), included in ''Fasciculus Geomanticus'', &c., Verona, 1687.

An unpublished manuscript, copied by an amanuensis, and headed ''Declaratio breuis'', &c., is in the [[Royal manuscripts, British Library]], 12 C. ii. Fludd's ''Opera'' consist of his folios, not reprinted, but collected and arranged in six volumes in 1638; appended is a ''Clavis Philosophiæ et Alchimiæ Fluddanæ'', Frankfort, 1633.<ref name=DNB/>