Tag: Astronomy
Video: Was HPL an "unconscious medium"? Two shorts on Lovecraft
Was HPL an "unconscious medium" of "alien" powers? On our Youtube channel we started uploading some short videos, which we appropriately edited, to shed light on the issue. In the first of the two we start from the dream experiences that he needed since childhood, while in the second we analyze the "revelational" elements dehis very personal * cosmic mythopoeia.
The "revival" of Astrology in the 900s according to Eliade, Jรผnger and Santillana
The revival of the astrological discipline in the last century has aroused the attention of some of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, who analyzed the phenomenon philosophically and from a mythical-traditional point of view: from Ernst Jรผnger to Mircea Eliade, up to the "Fatalism" by Giorgio de Santillana.
Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient India: The Insights of Brahmagupta and Bhฤskara Acฤrya
Centuries before Galileo and Newton some Indian scholars such as Brahmagupta and Bhฤskara Acฤrya, heirs of the millenary knowledge of the Vedas,ย they had already theorized the heliocentric model and the force of gravity; and again, calculus, second degree equations and the number zero.
G. de Santillana: โHistory to be rewrittenโ. Reflections on "Ancient Fate" and "Modern Affliction"
(image: Gilbert Bayes, ananke, sculpture)
Extract from the essay by Giorgio de Santillana ยซHistory to rewrite", Written in 1968 and published the following year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later (1985) translated and published in Italy by Adelphi in the collection of writings entitled"Ancient fate and modern fateยป.
Preface and notes by Marco Maculotti. Our italics.
