The American Minervan

Tag: history of science

  • Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages, Part II: All the Wise Sages

    Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages, Part II: All the Wise Sages

    INTRODUCTORY NOTE One of the reasons I have written this is to inspire us as world travelers, cosmopolitans, students, academics, teachers and so on. To begin, we must understand that if you sought to write a philosophical treatise or found a school (whether intentionally, directly or indirectly), how much the ideal of modern perfection and…

  • Henry Thomas Buckle on the Progress of Civilization

    Henry Thomas Buckle on the Progress of Civilization

    History of Civilization H.T. Buckle (English Historian, 1821-1862) “There appear from time to time great thinkers, who, devoting their lives to a single purpose, are able to anticipate the progress of mankind, and to produce a religion or a philosophy by which important effects are eventually brought about. But if we look into history we shall…

  • Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine and Revisionist History of Science connection to Occultism

    Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine and Revisionist History of Science connection to Occultism

    Rasgusan physicist Roger J. Boscovich (1711-1787) is mentioned in Helena Blavatsky’s book “The Secret Doctrine” written in 1888. Roger J. Anderton examines the use of Roger J. Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine in his paper, Boscovich in the Esoteric Tradition of Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine (July 21, 2014). R.J. Anderton argues that ancient notions have passed down to…