Magus - The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa sheds light on the golden age of occult writing''>

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'The magi were tricksters and con artists, unemployed students or priests, members of monastic orders, artists and occultists who shared the belief that knowledge could transform the world. They were the crucible in which science was formed ... Magus is a brilliantly vivid exercise in intellectual history, as told through the biographies of the early modern magi, which will stir the thoughts of everyone who reads it ... The implication of Grafton's mind-changing book is that our age of science may be one of the most extreme periods of magical thinking in history' John Gray New Statesman

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• Authors: Anthony Grafton, Anthony Grafton, Grafton Anthony
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.01.2025
• EAN: 9780140276916
• ISBN: 978-0-14-027691-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, History of Science, Social and cultural history, History: specific events and topics, European history: Renaissance, Conjuring and magic, Early 16th century c 1500 to c 1550, Later 15th century c 1450 to c 1499