Occult Scientific MentalitiesCambridge University Press, 1984 - 452 pages |
Contents
At the crossroads of magic and science John Dees Archemastrie | 57 |
The occult tradition in the English universities of the Renaissance a reassessment | 73 |
Analogy versus identity the rejection of occult symbolism 15801680 | 95 |
Matin Mersenne Renaissance naturalism and Renaissance magic | 165 |
Nature art and psyche Jung Pauli and the KeplerFludd polemic | 177 |
The interpretation of natural signs Cardanos De subtilitate versus Scaligers Exercitationes | 231 |
Keplers attitude toward astrology and mysticism | 253 |
Keplers rejection of numerology | 273 |
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