[377] Cf. Cena, Lag. 166. 32, where it is suggested that the Alps and Pyrenees once formed the summit of a very high mountain, gradually broken up, through continuous geological changes, into the lesser forms we now call mountains. So the whole of Britain is a mountain, rising up out of the sea; its summit is the highest point, Scotland.
[378] De Imm. bk. iv. ch. 18.
[379] Cf. Infinito, Lag. 351. 30, on the gradual changes of the earth’s surface, which Bruno infers are present, although imperceptible, in other stars also. Cf. ib. 332. 15, and De Imm., bks. iv. and vi.; Acrot. Arts. 48 and 74. In Inf. 353. 30, rocks, lakes, rivers, springs, etc., are compared to the different members or organs of the human body: the accidents or disturbances of them,—clouds, rain, snow, etc.,—to the diseases of the human body.
[380] Acrotismus: De Minimo.
[381] Lag. p. 158.
[382] Lag. 164. 18.
[383] Monadology, § 70. Cf. also §§ 64, 66, 67–69.
[384] Lag. 332.
[385] Lag. 357. 10; cf. 334. 24, 359. 13, 393. 5, and Her. Fur. 738. 17.
[386] Lag. 367. 12, 375. 37.