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• Words and things were united in their resemblance. Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. There were four ranges of resemblance. Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon. Convenientia connected things near to one another, e.g. animal and plant, making a great “chain” of being. Analogy: a wider range based less on likeness than on similar relations. Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets. A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
• ; he knew only that he had passed far beyond the town limits and was traversing a lonely region by a road that bore no resemblance to the one by which he had left the village. ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0