"This Little World therefore, which we call Man, is a great miracle, and his frame and composition is more to be admired and wondered at, then the workmanship of the whole Universe."
— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by William Iaggard
Date
1615
Metaphor
"This Little World therefore, which we call Man, is a great miracle, and his frame and composition is more to be admired and wondered at, then the workmanship of the whole Universe."
Metaphor in Context
This is the Meteorology of this Little worlde, this is the demonstration of those things therein that are imperfectly mixed. And if you require in man an example of a bodye perfectly mixed, behold and consider the whole body; in which, there is that concord and agreement of the foure disagreeing qualities, and so iust & equal a mixture of the elements, as that it is the very middle and meane amongst all liuing and animated things. This Little World therefore, which we call Man, is a great miracle, and his frame and composition is more to be admired and wondered at, then the workemanship of the whole Vniuerse. For, it is a farre easier thing to depaint out many things in a large and spacious Table, such as is the world; then to comprehend all things in one so little and narrow, as is the compasse of mans body.
(I.ii, p. 8)
(I.ii, p. 8)
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Citation
Helkiah Crooke, ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ: A Description of the Body of Man (London: Printed by William Iaggard, 1615). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
09/27/2011
