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![]() “Johannes Kepler in the Light of Recent Research,” History of Science 14:77–100.Īllen, D. The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Or, The Agreement and Disagreement of the Chymists and Galenists, trans. Judiciall Astrologie Judicially Condemned. Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium (Cambridge) ed. Forbes, in: The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, Bologna ed. Tetractys Anti-Astrologica, Or, The Four Chapters in the Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, Which contain a brief but solid Confutation of Judiciary Astrology. ![]() A Defensative agaynst the poyson of supposed Prophecies. Astrologo-Mastix, Or A Discovery of the vanity and iniquity of Judiciall Astrologie. Antiprognosticon, that is to saye, an Invective agaynst the vayne and unprofitable predictions of the Astrologians. Memoires pour servir it l’histoire des Plantes, Seconde Edition. Tractatus de signaturis in tern is rerum., Frankfurt trans. A Treatise Against Judicial Astrologie, together with Astronomiae Encomium, in Latin and English. Goddred Gilby, London new “Edition critique,” Avertissement contre l’Astrologie Judiciaire, ed. An Admonicion against Astrology Iudiciall, trans. Judicial Astrologers Totally Routed, and their Pretence to Scripture, Reason & Experience, Briefly, yet Clearly and Fully Answered. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īllen, J., 1659. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Walker, whose Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Fieino to Campanella (1958) was a key work in this tradition, moved from the Department of French of University College, London, to the Warburg Institute in 1961, while Frances Yates had been a Research Fellow of the Institute since 1938. One other source of influence was the Warburg Institute, whose library and teaching staff reflected the full range of Aby Warburg’s interests, including astrology and magic. ![]() Thorndike’s unrivaled knowledge of manuscript materials and his indefatigable researches certainly laid a new scholarly foundation for studies in the occult sciences and his work, together with the tradition established by Eugenio Garin in Florence (including Paolo Rossi and Cesare Vasoli), can be seen as both an inspiration and a reference point for the sudden popularity of magic in the English-speaking world in the 1960s and 1970s. 8) 1 - is much more reliable on magic than on science indeed, as his work progressed, Thorndike came to identify rather with the occult tradition, and could barely bring himself to discuss its opponents with either objectivity or fairness. This vast survey - as Eugenio Garin described it, “a catalogue and index rather than a history” (Garin 1983, 133, n. If one scholar changed this conspiracy of silence it was Lynn Thorndike, in his History of Magic and Experimental Science, published in eight volumes between 19. ![]() Some preferred to address themselves to the Scientific Revolution and simply ignore the occult leanings of Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Robert Fludd, and others. The revival of the occult sciences - astrology, alchemy, numerology and natural magic - during the Renaissance used to be an embarrassment to historians.
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