Fludd, Robert
(1574–1637)
ROBERT FLUDDFLUDD, ROBERTROBERT FLUDD [baptized 1574-† 1637] A powerful clash between early and reformed conceptions of music and procedures of investigation resulted when Robert Fludd unleashed his philosophical system upon the world, causing KEPLER and MERSENNE, among others, to respond with strong and negative comments. Fludd was a thinker bent on propagating the mediaeval teachings of musica mundana and musica humana as representations of the harmonious relations in the celestial macrocosm…