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Great Chain of Being (Didacus Valades, 1579)
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Great Chain of Being (Didacus Valades, 1579)

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The Great Chain of Being from Didacus Valades' Rhetorica Christiana (1579). Depicts the hierarchical cosmological order from God through angels, humans, animals, plants, to minerals.

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