1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. … Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
puhekieltä A way in which two people or things share similitude.
Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. … Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
puhekieltä Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
Wilkie Collins, Nine OClock!''
If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude, in the garden.