Magus
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A revelatory account of the magus - the learned magician - and his
place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the
extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive,
strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of
scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus
ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on
everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks.
Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers
of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius
and - by some measures - credulous or worse.The historical Faust,
Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Trithemius and
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are all fascinating characters, closely
linked to monarchs, artists and soldiers and sitting at the heart
of any definition of why the Renaissance was a time of such
restless innovation. The study of the stars, architecture, warfare,
even medicine: all of these and more were revolutionized in some
way by the experiments and tricks of these extraordinary
individuals. No book does a better job of allowing us to understand
the ways that magic, religion and science were once so intertwined
and often so hard to tell apart.
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Penguin Books Ltd ,
Anthony Grafton
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Penguin Books Ltd,
Anthony Grafton
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Slovart
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