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This limitation was already painfully obvious to the organic chemists in the 1880s these are statie struetures, whereas of eourse any moleeule at any temperature is a jelly-like pulsating, librating and vibrating entity. Only a terribly simplistic eye would see a molecule frozen into this Platonic archetype of the structural formula. 

Fludd always organised his theoretical discourse into two distinctive types of knowledge, that of lower mechanical and that of divine theosophical. The hrst part of the Macrocosm, accordingly, was devoted to divine science, while the second part, the Naturae Simla ( the ape of Nature ) dealt with practical skills of every kind. In this division of knowledge, he was following Dee s system of classihcation and both Hermeticists were basing themselves on the Platonic distinction between conceptual knowledge and the mechanical crafts. 

For the Stoic inheritance see D. R. Olroyd, Some Neo-platonic and Stoic influences in mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Ambix, 21 (1974) 128 ff. An important paper in this context is also Walter Pagel and Marianne Winder, The Higher Elements and Prime Matter in Renaissance Naturalism and in Paracelsus, Ambix, 21 (1974), 93 IT. 

Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology (Michael J. B. AUen transL James Hankins, ed.). The I Tatti Renaissance Libraiy/Harvard University Press Cambridge Mass./ London, 2005, Book 1 Gh. 4, 55-59. 

Cranz, Edward E., The Renaissance Reading of the De Anima , XVI Colhque Intema onal de Tours. Platon et Aristote a la Renaissance (Paris, 1976). 

Olroyd, D. R., Some Neo-platonic and Stoic influences in mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Ambix, 21 (1974) 128 ff... 

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Oldroyd, David R. Some neo-Platonic and Stoic influences on mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ambix 21, no. 2-3 (Jul-Nov 1974) 128-156. 

Genequand, Charles. Platonism and hermetism in al-Kindi s "Fi al-nafs". Z Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 4 (1987-1988) 1-18. 

Wilder, Alexander. New Platonism and alchemy a sketch of the doctrines and principal teachers of the eclectic or Alexandrian School also an outline of the interior doctrines of the alchemists of the Middle Ages. Albany (NY) Weed, Parsons, 1869. 30p. 

Cassirer, Ernst. The Platonic Renaissance in England. Edinburgh Nelson, 1953. 207p. 

Walker, Daniel Pickering. The ancient theology studies in Christian Platonism from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Ithaca (NY) Cornell Univ P, 1972. 

Chapman, Wayne K. From Platonic metaphor to Yeatsian scripture (review article). Cauda Pavonis 8, no. 1 (Spring 1989) 11-13. 

Harrison, J.S. Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. London Macmillan, 1903. 

Sencourt, Robert. "Outflying philosophy a literary study of the religious element in the poems and letters of John Donne and in the works of Sir Thomas Browne and of Henry Vaughan the Silurist, together with an account of the interest of these writers in scholastic philosophy, in Platonism and in Hermetic physick, with also some notes on witchcraft." BLitt thesis, Oxford Univ, 1923. 

Marks, C.L. Thomas Traherne and Cambridge Platonism. PMLA 81, no. 7 (Dec... 

Duprey, J.M. "Hermetic and platonic elements in the philosophy of William Butler Yeats." MA thesis, American Univ., 1966. 

Masters, George Mallary. The Hermetic and Platonic traditions in Rabelais Dive Bouteille. Studi Francesi 10 (1966) 15-29. 

Masters, George Mallary. "The Platonic and Hermetic tradition and the Cinquiesme livre of Francois Rabelais." PhD thesis, Johns Hopkins Univ, 1964. 

Masters, George Mallary. Rabelaisian dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic tradition. Albany (NY) State Univ of New York P, 1969. xi, 152 p. ISBN 0-87395-039-... 

Krailsheimer, A.J. Review of Rabelaisian dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic tradition, by G.M. Masters. In French Studs 25 (Jan 1971) 68-69.. ... 

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