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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it Is; with All Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Several Cures of it"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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Date: 1651
"Many erroneous opinions are about the essence and original of [the rational soul]; whether it be fire, as Zeno held; harmony, as Aristoxenus; number, as Xenocrates; whether it be organical, or inorganical; seated in the brain, heart or blood; mortal or immortal; how it comes into the body."
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)