Microcosm

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(n.) A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

Name given by the Middle Age philosophers to man as representing the macrocosm or universe in miniature.

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