Robert Fludd was one of the last of the true Renaissance men who tool
all learning as their preserve and tried to encompass the whole of human
knowledge. Born in Elizabethan England, he became a convinced occultist
while traveling on the Continent. His voluminous writings were devoted
to defending the philosophy of the alchemists and Rosicrucians and
applying their doctrines to a vast description of man and the universe.
All of Fludd's important plates are collected here for the first time,
annotated and explained together with an introduction to his life and
thought.