For recent articles and lectures by Steve Farmer available online, go to Article Downloads In his book on the RV (2000: 78), Talageri claims that “by a conservative estimate the total period of composition of the Rigveda must have covered a period of at least two millenniums” (Talageri’s spelling and emphases). Talageri precedes his claim with a chart (p. 76)…
For recent articles by Steve Farmer available online, go to Article Downloads. Those articles including the scathing review (“Horseplay in Harappa“) in Frontline of the following book by Rajaram and Jha. Jha, Natwar,The Deciphered Indus Script : Methodology, Readings, Interpretations /Natwar Jha and N. S. Rajaram. 1st ed. Delhi, Aditya Prakashan. 2000.xxviii, 269 p. ills. 29 cm.List Price: $…
Steve Farmer, John B. Henderson, and Peter Robinson Steve Farmer, Ph.D., Portola Valley, California; [email protected].John B. Henderson, Ph.D., East Asian Studies, Department of History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803; [email protected].Peter Robinson, Recom Technologies, NASA-Ames Research Center; [email protected]. For the PDF file of this paper and other recent articles and lectures, go to Article Downloads Abstract Parallels…
Premodern cosmologies from ancient to early modern times often exhibited striking self-similar or fractal properties. Classical examples show up in so-called Neo-Platonic and Neo-Confucian traditions, in a large cross-cultural family of scholastic systems, and in important medieval artistic, literary, and architectural works. Extreme scholastic and syncretic thinkers throughout Eurasia, especially towards the end of the…
It is usually claimed, following Eugenio Garin, that the earliest edition of Pico’s so-called oration on the dignity of man did not carry a title. But, in fact, the posthumous 1496 Bologna edition of Pico’s works, where the oration first appeared in print, carries a prominent running title on every double page that carries…
In passing, my study discusses a number of heated conflicts between Pico and his older contemporary, the Florentine Neo-Platonist Marsilio Ficino. One such conflict, from the last half of 1486, revolved around Pico’s criticism of Ficino’s work as translator and interpreter of Plotinus’s Enneads. Ironically, at least according to Ficino, Pico himself had first urged Ficino…
S. A. [Steve] Farmer, Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems (Tempe, Arizona: MRTS, 1998). Errata: 1. In the epitaph on p. vii, “John” is inadvertently omitted from the name “John Archibald Wheeler.” Philological reconstruction of this magnitude, however, is best undertaken by a number of researchers working…
Updated 16 Nov 2009 This site provides an overview of S.A. [Stephen A.; ‘Steve’ in more recent writings] Farmer, Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems (Tempe, Arizona: MRTS, 1998), 598 pages. Files from key sections of the book, along with files of closely related theoretical work involving…