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The Secretum Secretorum or Secreta Secretorum (Latin, 'Secret of secrets'), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar (Arabic: كتاب سر الأسرار, lit. 'The Secret Book of Secrets'), is a treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics ...
Other books of secrets, such as Isabella Cortese's Secreti (1564), disseminated alchemical information to a wide readership. Recent research has suggested that the books of secrets may have played an important role in the emergence of experimental science by bringing practical technical information to the attention of experimental scientists. [1]
Liber Secretorum (Latin for 'book of secrets') may refer to: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis by Marino Sanudo Torsello; Liber Secretorum Eventuum by Jean de Roquetaillade; Liber Secretorum Alberti Magni, another name for the Grand Albert
The beginning of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of the foundational texts of the discipline. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of human ...
Book of Mysteries (Manichaeism), also known as The Book of Secrets, a 3rd-century religious text, one of the Seven Scriptures of Manichaeism; The Book of Secrets, 1994 novel by M. G. Vassanji; Sefer HaRazim (The Book of Secrets), a Jewish mystical text; The Book of Secrets, 1974 book series by Rajneesh
The eschatology of the book is rather unusual. The end time described by the author does not manifest itself in the normal culmination of a battle, judgment or catastrophe, but rather as "a steady increase of light, [through which] darkness is made to disappear or in which iniquity dissolves and just as the smoke rising into the air eventually dissipates". [5]
Artephius, and his "secret book", were also subjects of interest to 17th-century alchemists. Also in the 1936 auction of Newton's collection was The Epitome of the treasure of health written by Edwardus Generosus Anglicus innominatus who lived Anno Domini 1562 .
The Book of Mysteries, also known as The Book of Secrets (Greek Transliteration: Ta tōn mustērion; Coptic transliteration: Pjōme nmmusterion; Arabic transliteration: Sifr al-asrar [1]), is one of the Seven Scriptures of Manichaeism.