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200 10$aTransfigured light $ephilosophy, science, and the hermetic imaginary /$fLeon Marvell
210   $aBethesda, Md. $cAcademica Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (323 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311 08$a1-933146-27-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- CONTENTS -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Ideal Objects and Their Forebears -- Chapter 2 Spirit of the Beehive: Hermetic Resonances in Cybernetics, AI &amp -- Cyberspace -- Chapter 3 Body Doubles -- Chapter 4 Metaphysical Geometry, Alien Attractors and the Shape of the World Soul -- Chapter 5 The Gnostic Alchemy of Robert Fludd -- Chapter 6 The Gnostic Leibniz, or What is it Like to be an Atom? -- Bibliography -- Index.
330   $aAn original research monograph that investigates and re examines the ideas generated by the Hermetic tradition (the hermetic imaginary) to discuss the effects of this tradition on philosophy and science. Author posits several elements of the hermetic imaginary that have been influential in modern philosophy and science.Table of contents:Chapter1: Spirit of the Beehive: Hermetic Resonances in Cybernetics, AI and CyberspaceChapter2: Body DoublesChapter3: Metaphysical Geometry, Cyber-Attractors and the Shape of the World SoulChapter4: The Gnostic Chemistry of Robert FluddChapter5: The Gnostic LeibnizChapter6: History Examines a Tradition" ....Highly recommended...an original and valuable contribution to the intellectual history of the West."Professor Paul du Quenoy, AUCHistory and Ideas Series, No.1
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