Fig. 7From: Depicting the Tree of Life: the Philosophical and Historical Roots of Evolutionary Tree DiagramsA key of the structure of the macrocosmos from Fludd (1618: 6). The macrocosmos was hierarchically structured from God (the creator of everything) to demons (part of the metaphysical) to nature (the physical) to the arts (the study of the operation of the physical). The world’s order was divineBack to article page