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Title: Studies in the history and method of science
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960
Subjects: Medicine Science
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e representation of Hildegard in the HeidelbergMS. (Plate III) shows no resemblance to those in the WiesbadenCodex B (Plate i) or in the Lucca MS. (Plates vi to ix), which willnow be described. (D) is an illustrated codex of the Liher divinorum operumsimplicis hominis at the Municipal Library at Lucca. It containsten beautiful miniatures, some of which are here reproduced(Plates VI to IX and xi), as they are of special value for the 1 For the history of these MSS. see A. van der Linde, loc. cit., pp. 30-6. 2 Goethe, Am Rhein, Main undNeckar, Coras J%6i7awms-^%5Sfa6e, vol.xxix,p. 258. 3 Wilhelm Grimm in M. Haupts Zeitschrijt fiir deuisches Alterihum, vi, p. 321,Leipzig, 1847. OF SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1180) 9 interpretation of Hildegards theories on the relation of macro-cosm and microcosm. This Lucca MS. was described and its text printed in 1761by Giovanni Domenico Mansi,^ a careful scholar, who was himself SJAST OUTER PLANETSJifars Jupihr anJ Safurn INNER PLANETS Vetius atxdl^zrcurtf
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CLOUDS HAIL ANDUCHTNINC THE TERRESTRIAWORLD WEST Fig. 2. HILDEGARDS FIRST SCHEME OF THE UNIVERSESlightly simplified from the Wiesbaden Codex B, folio 14 r. sometime Archbishop of Lucca. Mansi concluded that it waswritten at the end of the twelfth or the beginnmg of the 1 In i^tienne Baluze, Miscellanea novo ordine digesta et non paucis ineditismonumentis opportunisque animadversionibus aucta opera ac studio J. D. Mansi,4 vols., Lucca, 1761-6 ; see vol. ii, p. 377. 10 SCIENTIFIC VIEWS AND VISIONS thirteenth century. On palaeographical grounds a sHghtly laterdate would nowadays probably be preferred (Plate v6). The work consists of ten visions, each illustrated by a figure.The date, character, and meaning of these miniatures raise specialproblems to which only very superficial reference can here bemade. Unfortunately but little work has been done on earlyItalian schools of mmiaturists, and it is not a subject on whichany exact knowledge can yet be said to exist.^ Of these ten miniatures

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