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100			_aHadot, Pierre
245			_aThe veil of Isis : an essay on the history of the idea of nature
260			_bHarvard University Press _c2008 _aCambridge :
300			_axiv,399 p. ; _bill., _c21 cm
365			_b30.00 _c$ _d86.30
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aNearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as “Nature loves to hide,” has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot.
650			_aSpiritual Exercise
650			_aConjectural Science
650			_aPromethean Attitude
650			_aMechanization
650			_aExperimental Science
650			_aPagan Myth
650			_aPaganism
650			_aGod
650			_aAphorism
700			_aChase, Michael _etranslator
942			_2ddc _cBK