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Plotinus (204/5–270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master’s death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy and influenced both Christians and Moslems, and is still alive today because of its union of rationality and intense religious experience.In his acclaimed edition of Plotinus, A. H. Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages and give reference to parallels in Plotinus and others.

Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture, Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows: Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. Book 2: Materials and their treatment; Greek systems. Book 3: Styles: forms of Greek temples: Ionic. Book 4: Styles: Doric, Corinthian; Tuscan; altars. Book 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). Book 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. Book 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults; decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). Book 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. Book 9: Astronomy; Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. Book 10: Machines for war and other purposes.

Plotinus (204/5–270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master’s death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy and influenced both Christians and Moslems, and is still alive today because of its union of rationality and intense religious experience.In his acclaimed edition of Plotinus, A. H. Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages and give reference to parallels in Plotinus and others.

Les liens qui unirent l'Egypte et la Grèce sont forts et lointains et même si les dieux zoomorphes provoquaient l'effroi d'Hérodote, il n'en reste pas moins que les deux cultures ne cessèrent de s’influencer. Ainsi le dieu Thoth, auteur de livres religieux selon la croyance égyptienne, fut identifié à Hermès et une nouvelle littérature, en grec, mais puisant dans la ferveur égyptienne, se développa sous le nom d’Hermès. Ces textes, que l’on regroupe sous le nom de Corpus Hermeticum, rassemblent les discours qu’aurait prononcés Hermès, et servent de références au mysticisme hermétique, en bien des points semblable à l’orphisme. L’hermétisme, pensée mystique de l’ordre de la révélation comporte une cosmogonie, une anthropologie et une eschatologie, et a produit de nombreux traités d’astrologie.

First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire, among men who had received some instruction in Greek philosophy, and especially the Platonism of the period, but were not content with merely accepting and repeating the cut-and-dried dogmas of the orthodox philosophic schools and sought to build up, on a basis of Platonic doctrine, a philosophic religion that would better satisfy their needs.

On the Fabric of the Human Body. A translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Andreas Vesalius Translated by William Frank Richardson, M.A., Ph.D., in collaboration with John Burd Carman, B. Med. Sc., M.B.Ch.B., D. Phil. First published in 1543, Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica libri septem inaugurated the modern study of anatomy, leading to the eventual overturn of the Galenic system that had dominated medical science for fourteen centuries. Although many editions, revisions, adaptations, and facsimiles of this work appeared over the centuries, remarkably it has never before now been translated (except for fragments) into a modern language other than Russian (Moscow, 1950–1954). The Richardson and Carman translation supplies a modern, accessible version of this monumental work for the first time.

Maneesha says of her trilogy: "In 1985, after he returned to India from his world tour, Osho suggested that I write a book that would be, as he termed it, "the historical documentation" of his work and the movement that grew up around him. "Having at that point been with him for fourteen years, I found it impossible to squeeze all that needed to be said within the confines of one volume. So triplets emerged…an entire trilogy! (Curiously enough, each book did take nine months to complete)