microcosm-macrocosm

Page 63, Volume 1 although some Hippocratic writers produced elaborate versions of the microcosm-macrocosm analogy, this did not prevent other theorists from making considerable progress in both the study of anatomy and in astron - omy, during the fourth century.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas G. E. R. LLOYD 1968

By some as yet obscure personages in Egypt in the early second century B.C. the microcosm-macrocosm thesis was mathematicized and, in conjunction with the methods of utilizing celestial omens at the moment of

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

(he sees that appeal to cases cannot be decisive), but by attacking his use of the microcosm-macrocosm analogy, denying his general account of decay through the conflict of contraries, and arguing that the Cosmic

COSMIC FALL R. W. HEPBURN 1968