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-[[The black plate in Utriusque Cosmi Maioris]] refers to a [[black square]] representing [[primordial]] [[darkness]] of the [[universe]] at the moment before creation. It is an almost entirely black page [http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyf3heujLc1qzgbluo1_500.jpg] in [[Robert Fludd]]’s 1617 book ''[[Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica, atque Technica Historia]]''. The words 'Et sic in infinitum' (“and like this to infinity”) are written on all four sides of the [[square]].+[[The black plate in Utriusque Cosmi Maioris]] is an almost entirely [[black page]] [http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyf3heujLc1qzgbluo1_500.jpg][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Fludd_1617.jpg] in [[Robert Fludd]]’s 1617 book ''[[Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica, atque Technica Historia]]''.
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 +The black [[square]] represents [[primordial]] [[darkness]] of the [[universe]] at the moment before creation. It The words 'Et sic in infinitum' (“and like this to infinity”) are written on all four sides of the [[square]].
==See also== ==See also==
 +*[[Monochrome art]]
*[[Big Bang]] *[[Big Bang]]
*[[Biblical cosmology]] *[[Biblical cosmology]]
 +*[[Chaos (cosmogony)]]
*[[Creation myth]] *[[Creation myth]]
-*[[Black Square]]+*[[Black Square]], Malevich painting first exhibited in 1915
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The black plate in Utriusque Cosmi Maioris is an almost entirely black page [1][2] in Robert Fludd’s 1617 book Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica, atque Technica Historia.

The black square represents primordial darkness of the universe at the moment before creation. It The words 'Et sic in infinitum' (“and like this to infinity”) are written on all four sides of the square.

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