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Authors: Lynn Picknett,Clive Prince

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
 

Jeffrey Simmons, our agent and friend, for his usual unstinting help and support.

At Constable & Robinson: Andreas Campomar, Krystyna Green, Eryl Humphrey Jones, Jo Stansall and our editor, Leo Hollis, for his most constructive input.

David Bell, a dearly loved friend, for his often wicked humour, insight and support over many years. Much missed.

Keith Prince, for his customary invaluable assistance with research and especially for the many fruitful discussions that helped shape this book.

For their help, support and friendship: Deborah and Yvan Cartwright; Heather Couper; Jenny Boll; Carina Fearnley; Andrew Gough; Stewart and Katia Ferris; Nigel Henbest; Sarah Litvinoff; Moira Hardcastle; Jane Lyle; Neil McDonald; Sally Morgan; Craig and Rachel Oakley; James Pawson-Clark; Graham Phillips; Vlad and Mariana Sauciuc; Nick Spall; Mick Staley; Sheila Taylor; Oreste Teodorescu; Paul Weston; Caroline Wise.

Brian P. Copenhaver and Cambridge University Press for their kind permission to quote from Hermetica.

As always, the staff of the British Library, London. And the doctors and nursing staff of St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, without whom one of the authors
wouldn’t have been able to finish this book – or indeed anything else!

INDEX
 
 

abiogenesis
1

Adami, Tobias
1

Agathodaimon
1
,
2
,
3

Age of Enlightenment
1
,
2
,
3

ageing phenomenon
1
,
2

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

Akhenaten
1

Alberti, Leon Battista
1

Alchemical Wedding
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

alchemy
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

Newton’s preoccupation with
1
,
2

Alexander VI, Pope
1

Alexander VII, Pope
1
,
2
,
3

Alexander the Great
1
,
2
,
3

Alexandria
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

amino acids
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Ammonius Saccas
1
,
2
,
3

‘anal breakthrough’
1

Andreae, Johann Valentin
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

anima mundi
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

antagonistic pleiotropy
1

anthropic principle
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18

Antilia
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Antoninus
1

Apis
1
,
2

Appartamento Borgia frescoes
1
,
2
,
3

Arabic science
1
,
2

archaea
1

archetypes, theory of
1

Arian heresy
1

artificial intelligence
1

Asclepius
1
,
2
,
3

Asclepius
(
The Perfect Word
)
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12

‘Lament’
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

asexual reproduction
1
,
2

astrobiology
1

astrology
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

Hermetic texts
1
,
2

astronomy
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8

Atum
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

Augustine of Hippo
1

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