page_title: Robert Fludd
section_title: Controversial works
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Fludd / Controversial works
caption_attribution_description: English: Adaption of Robert Fludd's 16th century woodcut of 'Vitruvian man'
context_page_description: Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus, was a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is remembered as an astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist.
  Fludd is best known for his compilations in occult philosophy. He had a celebrated exchange of views with Johannes Kepler concerning the scientific and hermetic approaches to knowledge.
context_section_description: Fludd's works are mainly controversial. In succession he defended the Rosicrucians against Andreas Libavius, debated with Kepler, argued against French natural philosophers including Gassendi, and engaged in the discussion of the weapon-salve.
caption: Fludd's illustration of man the microcosm within the universal macrocosm
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