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![The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCQUc1RVFFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8dcf790ca85eeda60722bfff3620aa30fead7891/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Veil%20of%20Isis-%20An%20Essay%20on%20the%20History%20of%20the%20Idea%20of%20Nature.jpg)
399 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674030497
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication date: 01 September 2008
Description
Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subje...
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![The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCQUc1RVFFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8dcf790ca85eeda60722bfff3620aa30fead7891/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Veil%20of%20Isis-%20An%20Essay%20on%20the%20History%20of%20the%20Idea%20of%20Nature.jpg)
399 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674030497
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication date: 01 September 2008
Description
Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subje...