. Studies in the history and method of science. Fig. 9. From Herrade de Landsbergs Horhis deliciarum, after Straub andKellers reproduction.^ 1 The legend reads as follows : Minor mundus scilicet homo. Microcosmus.[Then on the head the names of the seven planets.] Caput microcosm! est rotun-dum in celestis spere modum in quo duo oculi ut duo luminaria in celo micantquod & septem foramina ut septem cell armonie omant. In pectore sunt flatus &tussis ut in aere uenti & tonitrua. In uentrem omnia fluunt ut in mare lapides ungues arbos dant gramina crines Ut pede mole[ m ] corporis sic te
. Studies in the history and method of science. Fig. 9. From Herrade de Landsbergs Horhis deliciarum, after Straub andKellers reproduction.^ 1 The legend reads as follows : Minor mundus scilicet homo. Microcosmus.[Then on the head the names of the seven planets.] Caput microcosm! est rotun-dum in celestis spere modum in quo duo oculi ut duo luminaria in celo micantquod & septem foramina ut septem cell armonie omant. In pectore sunt flatus &tussis ut in aere uenti & tonitrua. In uentrem omnia fluunt ut in mare lapides ungues arbos dant gramina crines Ut pede mole[ m ] corporis sic terrasustinet omnia. [At the four comers the following legends :] Aer huic donat quodflat, sonat. audit, odorat. Ignis feruorem dat uisum mobilitatem. Aqua. Munusaque gustus humorem sanguinis usus. Ex terra camem tactum trahit &gravitatem. From WIESBADEN CODEX B f o. 4 i v /, F |y V ? -y ^^ e^ w. late XXII. THE DAYS OF CREATION AND THE FALL OF MAN 48 OF SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1180) 49 From the summit of the vessel of the brain to the extremityof the forehead seven equal spaces can be distinguished. Herethe seven planets are designated, the uppermost planet in thehighest part, the moon in front, the sun in the middle and theother planets distributed among the other spaces (Fig. 9). IX. Birth and Death and the Nature of the Soul The method by which the soul enters the body is set forth ina very striking vision in the Scivias and is illustrated in the Wies-baden Codex B by a no less remarkable miniature (Plate xix). Thesoul, which contains the element of wisdom, passes into the infantsbody while yet within the mothers womb. The Wisdom of God isrepresented as a four-square object, with its angles set to the fourquarters of the earth, this form being the symbol of it a long tube-like process descends into the mothers this there passes into the child a bright
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