Kybalion (judul lengkap: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greek) adalah sebuah buku yang awalnya diterbitkan pada tahun 1908 oleh “Three Initiates” (sering diidentifikasi sebagai pionir Pemikiran Baru William…
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Notes on the Fourth Dimension
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal… — H.P. Lovecraft, The Tomb (1917) La Belle Époque, a beautiful term for a Beautiful Age, as Light and Understanding…
Illustrations of Madness
James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom In 1810 John Haslam, a London apothecary, published the first ever book-length description of a mad person’s delusions. Until this point most medical case histories of what we…
Frolicsome Engines
The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence How old are the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence? Many might trace their origins to the mid-twentieth century, and the work of people such as Alan Turing, who…
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum — compiled and edited by antiquary extraordinaire Elias Ashmole (1617–1692) — is perhaps the seminal volume of English alchemical literature. Most significantly, it brings together a number of hermetic works previously only available in privately…
Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Much human behavior has by now been interpreted through the lens of neuroscience. Day after day, news outlets publish articles explaining how researchers have mapped some new part of the central nervous system — further…
Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation (1887)
Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett\’s remarkable attempts to mathematically model the…