Concept

Robert Fludd

Overview

Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus (17 January 1574 – 8 September 1637), was a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is remembered as an astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist, and Rosicrucian.

Fludd is best known for his compilations in occult philosophy. He had a celebrated exchange of views with Johannes Kepler concerning the scientific and hermetic approaches to knowledge.

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Philosophers who discussed Robert Fludd

• Pierre Gassendi
• Pythagoras
• Marin Mersenne

Related ideas

• Freemasonry
• Francis Bacon
• Galen
• Harmonice Mundi
• Cartesianism
• Hippocrates
• Philosophy
• Isaac Newton
• Paracelsus
• Johannes Kepler
• Jesuits
• William Gilbert (physicist)
• Kabbalah
• John Amos Comenius
• Hermeticism
• Cosmology
• Metaphysics
• Mathematician
• Pierre Gassendi
• Meister Eckhart
• Heresy
• Astrology
• Platonism
• Occult

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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