Medieval/Renaissance World View

Sources

General Definitions

Basic Concepts

Chaos

Providence & the Law of Nature

Chain (or Chains) of Being

Models of the Universe: Ptolemaic

Models of the Universe: Ptolemaic

Models of the Universe: Ptolemaic

Models of the Universe: Ptolemaic

Models of the Universe: Copernican

Why were people so worried about the Copernican universe?

Hierarchies: Superlunary

Hierarchies: Sublunary: People

Why people are special

Hierarchies: Sublunary: Animals

Hierarchies: Sublunary: Other

Elements

Elements

Correspondences: Parallel Hierarchies

Correspondences: Parallel Hierarchies

Primacies

Physiology: Humours

Physiology: Humours

Physiology: Body: Head

Physiology: Body: Upper

Physiology: Body: Middle & Lower

Physiology: Body: Lower: Digestion

Correspondences

Renaissance Humanism

Acquiring Knowledge

Religion