Occult Scientific Mentalities

xiv, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Tape down spine. Contents: At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's archemastri [more]

xiv, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Tape down spine. Contents: At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's archemastrie / Nicholas H. Clulee --The occult tradition in the English universities of the Renaissance: a reassessment / Mordechai Feingold --Analogy versus identity: the rejection of occult symbolism, 1580-1680 / Brian Vickers --Marin Mersenne: Renaissance naturalism and Renaissance magic / William L. Hine --Nature, art, and psyche: Jung, Pauli[less]

xiv, 408 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Tape down spine. Contents: At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's archemastri [more]

xiv, 408 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Tape down spine. Contents: At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's archemastrie / Nicholas H. Clulee--The occult tradition in the English universities of the Renaissance: a reassessment / Mordechai Feingold--Analogy versus identity: the rejection of occult symbolism, 1580-1680 / Brian Vickers--Marin Mersenne: Renaissance naturalism and Renaissance magic / William L. Hine--Nature, art, and psyche: Jung, Pauli, and the Kepler-Fludd polemic / Robert S. Westman--The interpretation of natural signs: Cardano's De subtilitate versus Scaliger's Exercitationes / Ian Maclean--Kepler's attitude toward astrology and mysticism / Edward Rosen--Kepler's rejection of numerology / Judith V. Field--Francis bacon's biological ideas: a new manuscript source / Graham Rees--Newton and alchemy / Richard S. Westfall--Witchcraft and popular mentality in Lorraine, 1580-1630 / Robin Briggs--The scientific status of demonology / Stuart Clark--"Reason", "right reason", and "revelation" in mid-seventeenth-century England / Lotte Mulligan.[less]

This item is printed on demand. The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history of science: To what extent did the occ [more]

This item is printed on demand. The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history of science: To what extent did the occult 'sciences' (alchemy, astrology, numerology, and natural magic) contribute to.[less]

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