> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions ## Chapter Summaries Heraclitus: "Nature loves to hide." # Quotes # Archive [[2020-06-06]] There is a great review of this book by Ian Hacking: Hacking, Ian. “Almost Zero.” London Review of Books, May 10, 2007. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n09/ian-hacking/almost-zero. - Egyptian goddess Isis is the figure of nature - She is represented at the back of the Nobel science medal as being unrobed by a boy - Bacon and his peers took a 'Promethean' approach to nature, and believed that her secrets had to be stolen through trickery or torture - Goethe represents the 'Orphic' tradition in which we use rhythm and music to get her secrets - the Greek word for nature is physis, which eventually becomes physics - in the beginning, it meant the development of an organism - then it came to mean its essence - later on it became deified as a goddess or Mother nature References: Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature. HarperCollins, 2019. - I have it as a iBooks preview - women, ecology and the scientific revolution - Roszak, Theodore. Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society. Garden City: Doubleday, 1973. - he talks about Blake - Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. “Witches, Midwives, and Nurses.” Monthly Review 25, no. 5 (October 2, 1973): 25. https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-025-05-1973-09_2. `this was a formative book for Merchant` - a key moment in the scientific revolution was the move from viewing nature as organic and alive, to one in which she is dead