More Foucault on Mimesis

Foucault cites a concrete example by Crollius:

The stars are the matrix of all the plants and every star is only the spiritual prefiguration of a plant, such that it represents that plant, and just as each herb or plant is a terrestrial star looking up at the sky, so also each star is a celestial plant in spiritual form, which differs from the terrestrial plants in matter alone..., the celestial plants and herbs are turned toward the earth and look directly down upon the plants they have procreated, imbuing them with some virtue.

--Foucault, p. 20.