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INDEX
abiogenesis 1
Adami, Tobias 1
Agathodaimon 1, 2, 3
Age of Enlightenment 1, 2, 3
ageing phenomenon 1, 2
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Akhenaten 1
Alberti, Leon Battista 1
Alchemical Wedding 1, 2, 3, 4
alchemy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Newton’s preoccupation with 1, 2
Alexander VI, Pope 1
Alexander VII, Pope 1, 2, 3
Alexander the Great 1, 2, 3
Alexandria 1, 2, 3, 4
amino acids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ammonius Saccas 1, 2, 3
‘anal breakthrough’ 1
Andreae, Johann Valentin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
anima mundi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
antagonistic pleiotropy 1
anthropic principle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Antilia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Antoninus 1
Apis 1, 2
Appartamento Borgia frescoes 1, 2, 3
Arabic science 1, 2
archaea 1
archetypes, theory of 1
Arian heresy 1
artificial intelligence 1
Asclepius 1, 2, 3
Asclepius (The Perfect Word) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
‘Lament’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
asexual reproduction 1, 2
astrobiology 1
astrology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Hermetic texts 1, 2
astronomy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Atum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Augustine of Hippo 1
backward causation 1, 2, 3
Bacon, Francis 1, 2
Advancement of Learning, The 1, 2
Hermeticism 1, 2
bacteria 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Baronius, Caesar 1, 2
Battle of the White Mountain 1, 2
Bellarmino, Roberto 1, 2
Bergson, Henri 1
Bernini, Gianlorenzo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Bible
Book of Revelation 1
creation account 1, 2, 3
Gospel of John 1, 2, 3
prisca sapientia 1
world system model 1, 2
Bierman, Dick J. 1, 2, 3, 4
big bang theory 1, 2, 3, 4
binary system 1, 2
black holes 1, 2
Boccalini, Traiano 1, 2, 3
Boyle, Robert 1, 2, 3
Brahe, Tycho 1, 2
Brown, Dan 1, 2, 3
Bruno, Giordano 1
anticipates modern scientific thinking 1
and the Arian heresy 1
Ash Wednesday Supper, The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
condemned and burnt as a heretic 1, 2
cosmology 1, 2, 3
in England 1, 2
evolutionary doctrine 1
Explanation of the Thirty Seals 1
Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast 1, 2, 3, 4
and heliocentricity 1, 2, 3, 4
and Henri III of France 1, 2, 3, 4
and Henri IV of France 1
imprisonment 1
in Prague 1
in Saxony 1
mastery of memory systems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and notion of an infinite universe 1, 2, 3
On the Heroic Frenzies 1, 2
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds 1, 2
On the Shadows of Ideas 1
On the Threefold Minimum and Measure 1, 2
zeal for Hermetic reformation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
see also Giordanisti
building blocks of life 1, 2, 3
extraterrestrial origins 1, 2
seeding 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cabala 1, 2, 3, 4
Calabrian revolt 1, 2
calculus 1, 2
Cambridge Platonists 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Campanella, Tommaso 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
and Bruno 1, 2, 3
City of the Sun 1, 2, 3, 4
Defence of Galileo 1, 2
and Ficino 1
and Galileo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and heliocentric theory 1, 2, 3
Hermeticism 1, 2, 3, 4
imprisonment 1, 2, 3, 4
On Christian Monarchy 1
On the Sense of Things and of Natural Magic 1
organizes Calabrian revolt 1, 2
papal adviser 1
carbon 1, 2, 3
Carr, Bernard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Cartesian revolution 1, 2
Casaubon, Isaac 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Casaubon, Méric 1
Catholic Church
bans On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres 1, 2
Counter-Reformation 1, 2, 3,
4
and designer universe concept 1
and heliocentric theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hermetic sympathies 1, 2, 3, 4
onslaught against Hermeticism and Rosicrucianism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Catholic League 1, 2, 3, 4
cenancestor see LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
cephalopods 1
Charles I of England 1, 2, 3
Charles II of England 1, 2, 3
Charles Louis, Elector Palatine 1
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz in the Year 1459 1
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 1
Christian fundamentalism 1
Christian Unions 1
circulation of the blood 1, 2
Clement VIII, Pope 1, 2
Clement, Bishop of Alexandria 1, 2
cognition 1
Collegium Lucis 1
Comenius, John Amos 1
comets 1, 2
computer science 1
Confession of the Fraternity R.C. to the Learned of Europe (Confessio) 1, 2, 3, 4
consciousness 1, 2, 3, 4
Constantine, Emperor 1
Conway Morris, Simon 1, 2
Copernicus, Nicolaus 1, 2
astronomy 1
cosmology 1, 2
heliocentric theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hermetic inspiration 1, 2
On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Corpus Hermeticum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Ficino’s translation 1, 2, 3
Mind to Hermes 1
Pimander 1, 2, 3, 4
Renaissance rediscovery of 1, 2, 3
cosmology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Bruno’s 1, 2, 3
Copernicus’ 1, 2
Hermetic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Kircher’s 1, 2
scientific 1
Council of Trent 1
Counter-Reformation 1, 2, 3, 4
creation story
Heliopolitan 1, 2, 3
Hermetic account 1, 2
Judeo-Christian account 1, 2, 3
creationism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Crick, Francis 1, 2, 3, 4
Crowley, Aleister 1
Cudworth, Ralph 1
Darwin, Charles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
On the Origin of Species 1, 2, 3
Davies, Paul 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Dawkins, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14