Microcosm-macrocosm analogy

In his books, Duchesne defended the chemical interpretation of nature, drawing on the universal significance of a microcosm-macrocosm analogy and the underlying creative principles of Sulphur, Salt, and Mercury. The three principles were, in this rendering, just the first of a number of things arranged in threes that linked the... 

Helmont set little store by some other topics that were important to Fludd and other chemists, such as the cosmic conflict between light and darkness, which had been denied by the Church Fathers, and the microcosm-macrocosm analogy. His emphasis on the creation of human beings in God s image (Genesis 1.26-7) told against Paracelsus s and Fludd s doctrine of mankind as the microcosm ... 

The only way in which he allowed a microcosm-macrocosm analogy was in terms of mankind being created by God in his own image to rule over the works of God s hands (Psalm 8.3, 6) ... 

Hartmann promised that his students would comprehend the intimate harmonies of the universe and understand the analogous relationship between man (the microcosm) and the macrocosm. The library, it seemed, was not going to be the only place where this new kind of medical student could be found. Hartmann proclaimed that the natural physician had to dwell in the whole world, fly over its seas, and burst through the ramparts of the heav-... 

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