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 the scientific revolution of the late Renaissance?
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 the scientific revolution of the late Renaissance?
Editor's preface Introduction Brian Vickers 1. At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's Archemastrie Nicholas H. Clulee 2. The occult tradition in the English universities of the Renaissance: a reassessment Mordechai Feingold 3. Analogy versus identity: the rejection of occult symbolism, 1580-1680 Brian Vickers 4. Marin Mersenne: Renaissance naturalism and Renaissance magic William L. Hine 5. Nature, art, and psyche: Jung, Pauli, and the Kepler-Fludd polemic Robert S. Westman 6. The interpretation of natural signs: Cardano's De subtilitate versus Scaliger's Exercitationes Ian Maclean 7. Kepler's attitude toward astrology and mysticism Edward Rosen 8. Kepler's rejection of numerology Judith V. Field 9. Francis Bacon's biological ideas: a new manuscript source Graham Rees 10. Newton and alchemy Richard S. Westfall 11. Witchcraft and popular mentality in Lorraine, 1580-1630 Robin Briggs 12. The scientific status of demonology Stuart Clark 13. 'Reason,' 'right reason,' and 'revelation' in mid-seventeenth-century England Lotte Mulligan Index.
Editor's preface Introduction Brian Vickers 1. At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's Archemastrie Nicholas H. Clulee 2. The occult tradition in the English universities of the Renaissance: a reassessment Mordechai Feingold 3. Analogy versus identity: the rejection of occult symbolism, 1580-1680 Brian Vickers 4. Marin Mersenne: Renaissance naturalism and Renaissance magic William L. Hine 5. Nature, art, and psyche: Jung, Pauli, and the Kepler-Fludd polemic Robert S. Westman 6. The interpretation of natural signs: Cardano's De subtilitate versus Scaliger's Exercitationes Ian Maclean 7. Kepler's attitude toward astrology and mysticism Edward Rosen 8. Kepler's rejection of numerology Judith V. Field 9. Francis Bacon's biological ideas: a new manuscript source Graham Rees 10. Newton and alchemy Richard S. Westfall 11. Witchcraft and popular mentality in Lorraine, 1580-1630 Robin Briggs 12. The scientific status of demonology Stuart Clark 13. 'Reason,' 'right reason,' and 'revelation' in mid-seventeenth-century England Lotte Mulligan Index.
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