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  1. Putting nature in order
    1. An orderly world
    2. Steps, ladder, chain, scale
    3. An orderly progression
    4. The music of the spheres
    5. Order within order
    6. A chain of status
    7. The nobility and genry
    8. The Commonalty
    9. Order in the sexes
    10. Adam and Eve
    11. Primary qualities
    12. A table of equivalents
    13. More foursomes
    14. The humours (1)
    15. The humours (2)
    16. The humours (3)
    17. How to treat a fever
    18. Correspondences
    19. Microcosm/macrocosm
    20. Signs and the body
    21. Disorder
    22. Disorder (2)

Qualities, elements, seasons, humours

Based on a diagram from Isidore of Seville, Liber de responsione mundi (Augsburg, 1472). Original in the Huntington Library.

Four qualities, four elements, four seasons, four humours


season element humour body fluid location
Spring air sanguine blood heart
Summer fire choleric "yellow bile" liver
Autumn earth melancholic "black bile" spleen
Winter water phlegmatic phlegm (various)
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