The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns"The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences." - Times Literary Supplement "The . . . usefulness of this book for students of Renaissance literature and culture will not soon be ended." - Virginia Quarterly Review "The absence of contaminating traces either of condescension or of credulousness give this absorbing volume a special authority and place on the shelves of any reader or any library where the history of modern thoughts is relevant." - Scientific American "A remarkable summary and analysis of the five systems of esoteric science so influential in the Renaissance." - Milton Quarterly "A magnificent job of tying together a vast number of diverse sources into a unified whole . . . engrossing in its entirety." -The Sciences |
Contents
ASTROLOGY I | 1 |
Proastrological writings | 27 |
Further attacks | 42 |
Conclusion | 53 |
WITCHCRAFT | 60 |
Witches activities | 85 |
The imputing of all the effects to devils 91 physical transformation | 95 |
Astrological magic and Marsilio Ficinos De vita coelitus comparanda | 120 |
Alchemical processes | 170 |
The mystical doctrine | 186 |
the importance of analogy 193 268 | 193 |
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS | 201 |
General characterization of the doctrine | 211 |
Detailed analysis | 218 |
Hermetic influence on the Continent | 232 |
Notes to Chapter Five | 248 |
Spiritual or ceremonial magic and Cornelius Agrippas De occulta | 134 |
120 | 152 |
Conclusion | 156 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | 260 |
INDEX | 267 |
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