Robert Fludd’s musical instrument illustrations

By tyler on Jul 27, 2008 in Art, Experimental, H2O Instruments, Inventions, Machines/Robots

These ingenious illustrations are from the book De Naturae Simia written by the very controversial physicist, astrologer, philosopher, and mystic Robert Fludd (1574-1637) who was first to discuss the concept of blood circulation. Maybe this is why so many of his instruments seem to involve hydraulics.