Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Variorum Collected Studies Series)

by StephenClucas (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $157.38

  A collection of Stephen Clucas' articles that addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. It includes essays on the Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee that show the angelic conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to mediaeval magical traditions.