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The Anatomy of Melancholy

Overview

17th century encyclopedia of physical and psychological data, anecdote and quotation

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Philosophers who discussed The Anatomy of Melancholy

• Jean Bodin
• The Library of Babel
• Richard Swineshead
• Rudolph Goclenius

Related ideas

• Emotion
• Francis Bacon
• Romantic poetry
• Galen
• Hippocrates
• Herman Melville
• History of literature
• Jorge Luis Borges
• John Milton
• Robert Burton
• The Sorrows of Young Werther
• Internet Archive
• Latin
• Laurence Sterne
• Plagiarism
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Guardian
• Leslie Stephen
• Tyrant
• Oxford
• Predestination
• The Daily Telegraph
• Polymath
• Penguin Classics

Place in the tradition

Part of Deism.

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