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He Hain of Eing: Chaos and Order in The Renaissance Worldview
He Hain of Eing: Chaos and Order in The Renaissance Worldview
The Sun
Earth
The Moon
Planets
The Ptolemaic Model
Grew Increasingly Elaborate
Under Medieval Theology
• Sublunary Spheres
• Music of the Spheres
• Astrological Influence
• All Creation interconnected by Divine Love
• Stars and Planets corresponded to Alchemical
elements, to Bodily Humors, to types of
plants....to nearly everything.
Four Alchemical Elements
Fire (Highest but most volatile element, closest
to heavenly matter that composes spiritual
ether and stars; its natural state was warm/dry)
• Tears (in some models, Black Bile) liquid in the body that
caused melancholy, sadness, and depression)
• Death
• Erosion
• Disease
• Rain, Wind, and
Weather
• Rust and Decay
• Entropy
So how did the Great
Chain Work?