Sökning: "Johannes Bureus"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Johannes Bureus.
1. Dissertatio mathematica adumbrans trium magnorum corporum solis, terræ & lunæ intervalla ac magnitudines, quam sub divino auspicio ex consensu amplissimæ facultatis philosophicæ præside ... Johanne Bureo ... pro consveto in philosophia honore, publicæ examinantium censuræ modestè submittit Johannes Pontinus calmariensis. Ad diem [ ] junii anni 1659 in aud. vet. majori
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2. Götisk kabbala och runisk alkemi : Johannes Bureus och den götiska esoterismen
Sammanfattning : Gothicism in general, and the Swedish Gothicism in particular, had a close connection to the esoteric currents that were flourishing all over Europe in the Early Modern Period. Apocalyptic predictions and prophecies useful to Gothic propaganda were derived from contemporary esoteric streams, but alongside these came Hermetic and Neo-Platonic speculations of a more individual character that emphasized man’s gradual ascension toward a higher state. LÄS MER
3. A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650
Sammanfattning : At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Gibbon described the antiquarian scholars of previous generations as men of “profound learning and easy faith.” His exemplar was the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who in a series of frantic and combative tomes sought to portray Sweden as the model for Plato’s Atlantis and the seething cultural cauldron from which Western civilization had emerged. LÄS MER
4. Runor, magi, ideologi : en idéhistorisk studie
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation deals with runology from the perspective of the history of science and ideas. Its point of departure is the controversial question among runologists of whether or not runes were used for magical purposes and places this question in atradition of magic writing, with its roots in early antiquity (when written language emerges in Mesopotamia), and in thoughts about symbolism, whose origins are lost to usin the mists of our prehistoric past. LÄS MER