The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
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| Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) | Text of the Gesture | Gesture Type (The Terminology page on “”) | Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) |
| Carleton, Madam Mary. The Case of Madam Mary Carleton. 1663. | Autobiography | “That marriage and hanging went by Destiny.” | quote | Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1621. | Medicine |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “That by Art there can be a reparation made of the Mischiefs and Imperfections mankind has drawn upon it self by negligence and intemperance, and a wilful and superstitious deserting the Prescripts and Rules of Nature, whereby every man, both from a derived Corruption, innate and born with him, and from his breeding and converse with men, is very subject to slip into all sorts of Errors.” | quote | Hooke, Robert. Micrographia. 1665. | Medicine | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “That the uncertainty and mistakes of humane actions proceed either from the narrowness and wandring of our senses, or from the slipperiness or delusion of our memory, or from the confinement or rashness of our understanding.” | quote | Hooke, Robert. Micrographia. 1665. | Medicine | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “It is no wonder that our power over natural Causes and Effects is so slowly improved, seeing we are not onely to contend with the obscurity and difficulty of the things whereon we work and think, but even the forces of our minds conspire to betray us: And these being the dangers in the process of Humane Reason, the remedies can onely proceed from the Real, the Mechanical, the Experimental Philosophy, which hath this advantage over the Philosophy of discourse and disputation, That whereas that chiefly aims at the subtilty of its deductions and conclusions, without much regard to the first ground-work, which ought to be well laid on the sense and memory, so this intends the right ordering of them all, and making them serviceable to each other.” | quote | Hooke, Robert. Micrographia. 1665. | Medicine | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “the Cabinet of Nature, wherein are laid up her Jewels” | quote | Hooke, Robert. Micrographia. 1665. | Medicine | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “That Animals by their shapes are not tied or bound to any other kind of Creature, either for support or nourishment, as Vegetables are, but are loose and free of themselves from all others:” | quote | Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical and Physical Opinions. 1655. | Medicine | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Souls and Lives, as they know no Degrees, so they know no Parts;” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Causes and Principles of natural Bodies” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Element of Water” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ferment or Leaven” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Causes and Beginnings” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “things, which are produced without life” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Seeds of things, and the Spirits, as the Dispensers thereof, are divided from the Material Cause” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Efficient and Seminal Causes, some are efficiently effecting, and others effectively effecting:” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeus, Ferment” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideas, Blas, Gas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideas, Archeus, Gas, Blas, Ferment” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeus” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “the Spirit of Life; a vital Gas or Light; the Balsam preserving from Corruption; the Vulcan or Smith of Generation; the stirrer up, and inward director of Generation; an Air, a skiey or airy Spirit; cloathing himself presently with a bodily cloathing, in things soulified, walking through all the dens and retiring places of the seed, and transforming the matter according to the perfect act of its own Image, remaining the president and overseer or inward ruler of his bounds even till death; the Principle of Life: the Inn of Life, the onely immediate Witness, Executer, and Instrument of Life; the Prince and Center of Life; the Ruler of the Stern; the Keeper of Life, and promoter of Transmutations; the Porter of the Soul; a Fountainous being; a Flint.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeus” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas is the Vapour into which Water is dissolved by Cold, but yet it is a far more fine and subtil thing then Vapour” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Wild Spirit, or Breath, unknown hitherto, which can neither be constrained by Vessels, nor reduced into a visible body; in some things it is nothing but Water; as for example in Salt, in Fruits, and the like.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas proceeds from the local and alterative motion of the Stars, and is the general beginning of motion, producing heat and cold, and that especially with the changing of the Winds.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas in all sublunary things” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Which Incorporeal Blas of Government acts without a Corporeal Efflux, even as the Moon makes the Sea to swell; but the fleshly generation hath a Blas of its own, and it is twofold, one which existeth by a natural Motion, the other voluntary, which existeth as a mover to it self by an Internal Willing.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas of the Heart” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “the fuel of the Vital Spirit, and consequently of its heat.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ferment” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “A true Principle or Original beginning of things, to wit, a Formal Created being, which is neither a substance, nor an accident, but a Neutral being, framed from the beginning of the World in the places of its own Monarchy, in the manner of Light, Fire, the magnal or sheath of the Air, Forms, &c. that it may prepare, stir up, and go before the Seeds.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Certain formal seminal Lights, mutually piercing each other without the adultery of Union” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “For” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “although at first, that, which is imagined, is nothing, but a meer being of reason, yet it doth not reamin such; for truely the Fancy is a sealifying vertue, and in this respect is called Imaginative, because it forms the Images of Likenesses, or Ideas of things conceived, and doth characterize them in its own Vital Spirit, and therefore that Idea is made a spiritual or seminal powerful being, to perform things of great moment.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeal Ideas, Ideas of Diseases, Sealifying Ideas, Piercing Ideas, Forreign and strange Ideas, Mad Ideas, Irrational and Incorrigible Ideas, Staggering Ideas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas, Blas,” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideal Entity,” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “False Doctrine” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. “A Passive Deceiving and Ignorance of the Schools of the Humourists.” Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “of the Schools” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. “A Passive Deceiving and Ignorance of the Schools of the Humourists.” Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Natural coldness of Water, Air, and Earth” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Native Heat is no where in things, except from Light, Life, Motion, and an altering Blas” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Fishes do by the force or vertue of an inbred Seed transchange simple water into fat, bones, and their own flesh, and that materially they are nothing but water transchanged, and that they return into water by art” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “There is in the air something, that is less then a body, which fills up the emptinesses or little holes and pores in the air, and which is wholly annihilated by fire; It is actually void of all matter, and is a middle thing between a body and an Incorporeal Spirit, and almost nothing in respect of bodies; for it came from Nothing, and so may easily be reduced to nothing.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “a Rainbow is not a natural effect of a natural Cause, but a divine Mystery in its original; and that it has no matter, but yet is in a place, and has its colours immediately in a place, but in the air mediately, and that it is of the nature of Light.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “That although they may have concurring natural Causes, yet the mover of them is an Incorporeal Spirit, which is the Devil; who having obtained the Principality of this world, that he may be a certain executer of the Judgments of the chief Monarch, and so the Umpire and Comissioner of Lightning and Thunder, stirs up a monstrous and sudden Blas in the Air, yet under Covenanted Conditions; for unless his power were bridled by divine Goodness, he would shake the Earth with one stroke so, as to destroy all mortal men: and thus the cracking noise or voice of Thunder is nothing but a spiritual Blas of the Evil Spirit.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Trembling of the Earth, thinks it is nothing else but the Judgment of God for the sins of Impenitent men.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideas,” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. “Of the Ideas of Diseases.” Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||