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In this, as well as in his theory of knowledge, Telesio seems to follow Girolamo Fracastoro's explanation of sense perception and understanding given in the closing chapters of De sympathia et antipathia rerum and in the epistemological treatise Turrius sive de intellectione.
Bernardino Telesio Boenke, Michaela 2004
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The warrior's shield, with its motto "_Magica sympathia_," his fat white hands, velvet breeches, steel cuirass, and stiff lace collar remained for days a grotesque image before his mind.
Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange John Oliver Hobbes 1886
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When it is asked, wherefore the loadstone doth attract iron rather than other metal? they answer, that the cause thereof is _sympathia physica inter magnetem et ferrum_.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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