 Here, the connection between Taurellus and his teacher Jacob Schegk becomes relevant. Schegk maintains that both inanimate forms and animate forms depend on the mixture of elements. As he points out, such a conception of the origin of animate forms has the consequence that “an animate form also is a physical form …” (PT). In fact, such a view of the origin of souls is found in Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. ca. 200 CE), upon whose work Schegk has commented extensively. According to Alexander, the soul 