Archæopteryx (arkeopteriks)

[NL., [NL., Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 585. archæostome (är'kē-ō-stōm), n. Same as ar archæsthetic, archæsthetism, etc. See arch esthetic, etc. archæus (är-kē'us), n.; pl. archæi (-1). Gr. ἀρχαῖος , ancient, primitive, ἀρχή , begin ning, ἄρχειν , be first: see archæo-.] In the philosophy of Para cels us and other spagyrics, mystics, and theosophists, a spirit, or invisible man or animal of ethereal substance, the counterpart of the visible body, within which it resides and to which it imparts life, strength, and the power of a imilating food. The word is said to have been used by Basil Valentine, a German chemist of the fifteenth century, to denote the solar heat as the source of the life of plants. Para cels us uses it with the above meaning. It is frequent in the writings of Van Helmont, who explains it as a material preëxistence of the human or animal form in po e . He regards the archæus as a fluid, that is, as a semi-material substance, like air, and seems to consider it a chemical constituent of the blood. Para cels us had particularly made use of the hypothesis of the archæus to explain the a imilation of food. This function of the archæus became prominent in medicine, Van Helmont calls it the door-keeper of the tions of meaning. Also spelled archeus. stomach ( janitor stomach i). There are further divarica As for the many pretended intricacies in the instance of the eff or mat i on of Wasps out of the Carcase of a Horse, I say, the Archei that formed them are no parts of the of being primitive, but a rude ne and imperfection imply ing the promise of future ad vance. that is merely barbarous is not properly ar Greek Archaic Sculpture. Funeral Relief, illustrating the careful but angular and "fluted" treatment drapery. have any development, succeeds the first rude attempts of a people to arrive at graphic representation, and exhibits sincerity and striving to attain truth, Anally the charity appears title bittent truth is reached in the great art-schools, such as those of Greece and of the Renai ance painters, or as art sinks into lifele conventionalism before reaching truth, as in the sculpture of Egypt and Me so pot am i a.