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>>16307680
this is an interesting book

>A richly dressed woman stands before a forge and, using a hammer and anvil,
fashions people out of existing parts: this is "Natura artifex", or Nature the ar-
tisan The metaphor of Natura artifex was commonly used in the early
and high medieval periods to convey Nature’s role in a three- tiered system of
creation that included the works of God, Nature, and human beings. Broadly
speaking, the metaphor turns on the idea that Nature acts as an intermediary
between the world of ideal forms and the world of matter.The metaphor of
Natura artifex depicts Nature’s role to create material ob-
jects out of preexisting forms— and renders it visually (the preexisting forms
are in this image the body parts) and in the vocabulary of manufacture (Na-
ture uses a hammer, anvil, and forge to do her work)