Goethe's Theory of Colour by GOETHE, JOHANN
$66.95 AUD
Category: Colour Therapy | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture Ser.
This work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was translated into English in 1840 by Sir Charles Eastlake (1793-1865), painter and later keeper of the National Gallery. Goethe's 1810 work was rejected by many contemporary scientists because it appeared to contradict the physical laws laid down by ...Show more
Goethe's Theory of Colour by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
$39.95 AUD
Category: Colour Therapy | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
In this classic of speculative science, the author of Faust provides a unique perspective on the nature of color. Although not scientifically accurate in light of current knowledge, it offers an invaluable exploration of color, art, aesthetics, and philosophy, marked by inimitable prose and stimulating ...Show more
Ascent of Jacob Bronowski - Hardcover by Timothy Sandefur
$42.95 AUD
Category: Science & New Science
The first-ever biography of Jacob Bronowsi - one of the leading science popularisers of his generation.Best remembered today for his blockbuster documentary series The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski spent decades explaining scientific ideas to laypersons on television and radio. A true Renaissance man, ...Show more
Isaac Newton & Transmutation of Alchemy by Philip Ashley Fanning
$36.99 AUD
Category: Alchemy
Isaac Newton was an alchemist. That fact is usually brushed aside as unrelated to his leading role in the scientific revolution, but author Philip Fanning has re-examined the evidence and concluded that the two were really inseparable. In this book Fanning shows us the surprisingly profound influence th ...Show more
Indra's Net by ROBERTSON, R
$31.95 AUD
Category: Alchemy
In this clear, engaging book, Robin Robertson draws parallels between alchemy and chaos theory and shows how to apply them to our inner development. He is not proposing they replace traditional spiritual paths, but rather that they reflect deep structures in the psyche that any inner journey awakens. Th ...Show more
Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies by Craig P. Bauer
$44.95 AUD
Category: Symbols
A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all time In 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his wallet and an enciphered message taped to his abdomen. In 1912, a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich came i ...Show more
Astronomy 2024 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky by Glenn Dawes, Peter Northfield, Ken Wallace
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science & New Science
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
A New Science of Life by Rupert Sheldrake
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & New Science
After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time, it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over the world. After rats at Harvard first escaped from a new kind of water maze, successive generations learned quicker and quicker. Then rats in Melbourne, Australia learned y ...Show more
The New Physics and Cosmology - Dialogues with the Dalai Lama by Arthur Zajonc (Editor); Zara Houshmand (As told to)
$70.95 AUD
Category: Science & New Science
What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian? This book is the carefully edited record of the fascinating discussions at a Mind and Life conference in which five leading physicists and a historian (David Finkelstein, George Greenstein, Piet Hut, Arthur Zajonc, Anton Zei ...Show more
Transformer - The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane
$70.00 AUD
Category: Psychology, Self-Help & Wellbeing
For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. A better question goes back to the formative years of biology: what processes animate cells and set them apart from lifeles ...Show more
A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change - secondhand by John Glassie
$10.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand Titles
A "Scientific American "Best Science Book of 2012 An Atlantic Wire Best Book of 2012 A "New York Times Book Review" "Editor's Choice" The "fascinating" ("The New Yorker") story of Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric scholar-inventor who was either a great genius or a crackpot . . . or a bit of both. The i ...Show more