...representation."63 As Browne, also aware of this "punctual spot," says: The earth is a point not onely in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestiall part within us: that masse of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind: that surface...

...microcosme of mine owne frame'. But this somatic definition of the self soon collapses: 'that masse of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind: that surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. Browne was no Cartesian. Yet his distinction between...

...altitude; for I am above Atlas's shoulders and, though I seem on earth to stand, on tiptoe in heaven. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...limits not my mind: that surface that tells the heavens it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty,...

...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of heavenly and celestial part within us. That V {( mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my...