. Studies in the history and method of science. Fig. 7. MELOTHESIAE From R. Fludd, Historia utriusque cosmi, Oppenheim, 1619, pp. 112 and 113. 42 SCIENTIFIC VIEWS AND VISIONS and creeping things which add to the miseries of purgatory orat times come forth to earths surface to plague northern and southern sections exhibit dimly by theiridentically reversed arrangement the belief in the antipodeaninversion of climate, an idea hinted several times in Hildegardswritings, but more definitely illustrated by a figure of Herrade deLandsberg (Fig. 5). Macrocosmic schemes of the type illus
. Studies in the history and method of science. Fig. 7. MELOTHESIAE From R. Fludd, Historia utriusque cosmi, Oppenheim, 1619, pp. 112 and 113. 42 SCIENTIFIC VIEWS AND VISIONS and creeping things which add to the miseries of purgatory orat times come forth to earths surface to plague northern and southern sections exhibit dimly by theiridentically reversed arrangement the belief in the antipodeaninversion of climate, an idea hinted several times in Hildegardswritings, but more definitely illustrated by a figure of Herrade deLandsberg (Fig. 5). Macrocosmic schemes of the type illustrated by the text ofHildegard and by the figures of the Lucca MS. had a great vogue Aorta. «^i. ERrciES Fig. 8. THE MICROCOSMFrom R. Fludd, Philosophia sacra seu astrologia cosmica, Frankfurt, 1628, p. 52. in mediaeval times, and were passed on to later ages. Somepassages in Hildegards work read curiously like Paracelsus (1491-1541),^ and it is not hard to find a link between these two difficultand mystical writers. Trithemius, the teacher of Paracelsus, wasabbot of Sponheim, an important settlement almost within sight ofHildegards convents on the Rupertsberg and Disibodenberg. Tri-themius studied Hildegards writings with great care and attached 1 An illustration of this parallelism between Paracelsus and Hildegard is affordedby certain passages in the Labyrinthiis medicorum errantium and the Scivias,lib. i, vis. 4. Especially compare p. 279 et seq. of Husers edition of the Opera,Strasbourg, 1603, with Migne, col. 428. OF SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1180) 43 much importance to them, so that they may well have influencedhis pupil. The influence of mediaeval theories of the relationof m
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