The Hieroglyphic Monad

Το βιβλίο αυτό περιλαμβάνει μια μετάφραση του θρυλικού έργου του Τζων Ντη Ιερογλυφική Μονάς, από τον Παναγιώτη Κάρδαρη και την Ευαγγελία Θώμου, με κατατοπιστικά σχόλια, ωραία Εισαγωγή και εκτενές Επίμετρο. Η μόνη έλλειψη αφορά τη βιβλιογραφία, η οποία είναι πολύ φτωχή. Η βιβλιογραφία είναι μόνο δυόμ......more

It was a hard reading for me. Maybe I’ll re-read it in some years because I think I need more background.......more

“Here the vulgar eye will see nothing but Obscurity and will despair considerably,” John Dee adds at the very end of his 32-page book “the Hieroglyphic Monad”. The book — written in two weeks in the year 1564 in Antwerp — contains 24 theorems that are extracted from an enigmatic “glyph” which conden......more

forgot to add this here finished a while ago love john dee......more

I have a copy of this under my bed. When I say copy, I mean inkjet on printer paper, held together with a paperclip. I enjoy oddities, and that's what I'd call this. The hieroglyphic is a mash up of a few alchemical signs and is supposed to represent all the important elements of the universe - the......more