Joscelyn Godwin

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Joscelyn Godwin is Professor ofMusic at Colgate Universityin Hamilton, New York. He was born in England and came to the USA in 1966 to study musicology at Cornell University. Since then he has written,edited, or translated over 30 books on aspects of music and the WesternEsoteric Tradition. Titles that have remained in print for many years include Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher andSurveyor of Two Worlds (1979), Harmoniesof Heaven and Earth (1987), Arktos:The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival (1993), and The Theosophical Enlightenment (1994). In1999 he published the first complete English translation of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, FrancescoColonna's erotic-architectural fantasy novel of 1499. He has also collaboratedwith his son, Ariel, on the translation of modern Pythagorean and Hermetic masterworksby Hans Kayser, Petrus Talemarianus, and Saint-Yves d'Alveydre. His most recentbooks are The Golden Thread: the AgelessWisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions (2007), Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World (2009), and Atlantis and the Cycles of Time (2010).

For JoscelynGodwin's authorized biographies, see Who'sWho in America,Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Gale's Contemporary Authors. A complete list of his writings is athis website: https://sites.google.com/a/colgate.edu/jgodwin/

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Esoteric traditions

Forteana

Classical music

Art and architecture