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English summary: Robert Fludd's (1574-1637) Utriusque Cosmi Historia is a key work of mystical Naturphilosophie in the early modern era. It is an encyclopedia of all those theories excluded from the scientific canon due to their alleged superstition and irrationality. Fludd - medical scientist, astrologist, Kabbalist, mathematician and Naturphilosoph - develops a cosmology that depicts the influence of the stars on world events, as well as illustrating and describing in detail all the man-made arts and technologies during this period, which are explained in analogy with their celestial...