商品簡介
The standard account of the development of science is mistaken, declares Marvell (communications and creative arts, Edith Cowan U., Australia), in considering that Hermetic ideas were expunged from the modern worldview during and after the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. He argues that such notions as chaos and complexity theory, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science are not new-born and sui generis as claimed, but in fact ancient ideas that have continued to flow just beneath the surface of science in metaphor, in inversion, in leaps of faith. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
