Renaissance man, Elizabethan philsopher, and scholar RobertFludd sought to integrate the whole of human knowledge within adivine and hierarchically ordered cosmology. After completing hiseducation at Oxford University, he journeyed throughout Europeseeking the knowledge of mystics, scientists, musicians,physicians, and alchemists, leading to the publication of manyhistorically influential works on science, medicine, andphilosophy.