MICROCOSM  , a See also:

• TERM

term often applied in philosophical and in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general literature to See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man regarded as a " little See also:

• WORLD

world " (Gr. wcp6s K60'µos) in opposition to the " macrocosm," See also:

• GREAT

great world, in which he lives . From the See also:

• DAWN (the 16th-century form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)

dawn of speculative thought in See also:

• GREECE

Greece the See also:

• ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy between man and the world has been a See also:

• COMMON

common-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, and may be traced from Heraclitus and See also:

• EMPEDOCLES (c. 490–430 B.C.)

Empedocles, through See also:

• PLATO

Plato, See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle, the See also:

• STOICS

Stoics, the Schoolmen and the thinkers of the See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance down to the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . Thus See also:

• LOTZE, RUDOLF HERMANN (1817-1881)

Lotze's comprehensive survey of See also:

• MENTAL

mental and moral See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science is termed Microcosmos The most systematic expression of the tendency indicated by the term is the monadology of See also:

• LEIBNITZ (LEIBNIZ), GOTTFRIED WILHELM

Leibnitz, in which the See also:

• MONAD (Gr. µovas, unit, from µovos, alone)

monad is regarded as containing within its own closed See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere an expression of the universe, the typical created monad being the human soul .