Out of Order: 5000 Years of Chaos and Cosmographics

CONTENTS

PART I: Roots

1. Ancient Greece
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1.1. Athens and Alexandria

1.2. The Orphic Hymns

1.3. The Long Line of Plato

1.4. Pythagoras

1.5. Plato

1.6. Aristotle

2. Late Antiquity : Hermetica
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2.1. Alexandria

2.2.The Corpus Hermeticum

2.3. The Chaldean Oracles

2.4. Astrology

2.5. Magic

2.6. Medicine

3. Late Antiquity : Neoplatonica
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3.1. Rome

3.2. Neoplatonism

3.3. Julianus, Theurgy, and the Chaldean Oracles

3.4. Cosmographica

3.5. Complex dynamical systems

PART I: Roots

4. Medieval

4.1. Byzantium, Baghdad, and Palermo

4.2. The three main currents

4.3. Early Humanism

4.4. Paris and Chartres

PART II: Renaissance

5. Early Renaissance

5.1. Florence

5.2. Civic Humanism

5.3. Gemistos, Cusanus, Bessario

5.4. Ficino (translations and commentaries)

5.5. Facets of Ficino (his writings and letters)

5.6. Reuchlin, Giorgio, Trithemius

5.7. Pico della Mirandola, Agrippa

6. Late Renaissance

6.1. London

6.2. Trent

6.3. John Dee

6.4. Giordano Bruno, Tomasso Campanello

6.5. Robert Fludd vs Mersenne and Kepler

PART III: End of the Renaissance

6. Birth of Modern Science

6.1. Prague

6.2. Paracelsus

6.3. Kepler

6.4. Descartes

6.5. Galileo

6.6. Newton

References for Part III

Part IV: The New Renaissance

7. Today

7.1. James Hillman

7.2. Thomas Moore

7.3. Rupert Sheldrake

7.4. Dean Radin

7.5. Chaos theory