Based on the work of Paracelsus, Robert Fludd devised an theory of creation wherein god separated the materials of the universe out of a chaotic prima materia, in the same way that an in a laboratory would do. These engravings from the History of the Two Worlds, 1617, illustrated his wild theories. Source: archive.org


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