Almost Zero
Ian Hacking: Ideas of Nature, 10 May 2007
The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
by Pierre Hadot, translated by Michael Chase.
Harvard, 399 pp., £19.95, November 2006,0 674 02316 1 Show More
by Pierre Hadot, translated by Michael Chase.
Harvard, 399 pp., £19.95, November 2006,
“... lifetime; their play is forgotten, and they become literal or lost. How long can a metaphor live? Pierre Hadot’s absorbing book is written around a single phrase: ‘Nature loves to hide.’ That is a translation, or mistranslation, of a fragment that Heraclitus inscribed some 2500 years ago. It is alive and well. Here is a physicist, Steve Chu, in ... ”
