Entrée principale:

Shumaker, Wayne, author.

Titre et auteur:

The occult sciences in the Renaissance: a study in intellectual patterns / Wayne Shumaker.

Publication:

Berkeley, University of California Press [1972]

Description:

xix, 284 pages illustrations 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-266).
Astrology. Introduction ; The beginning of all-out attack: Giovanni Pico's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem ; Pro-astrological writings ; Further attacks -- Witchcraft. The human impact ; The theory of witchcraft ; Witches' activities ; Steps toward the denial of witchcraft -- White magic. Preliminary distinctions: natural magic, spiritual magic, goëtia or black magic, astrological magic ; Natural magic and Giovanni Baptista Della Porta's Magiae naturalis libri viginti ; Astrological magic and Marsilio ficino's De vita coelitus comparanda ; Spiritual or ceremonial magic and Cornelius Agrippa's De occulta philosophia libri tres -- Alchemy. Introduction ; History of alchemy ; Alchemical processes ; The mystical doctrine ; Mental habits: the importance of analogy ; Gain and loss in the disappearance of faith -- Hermes trismegistus. Background ; The Hermetic documents ; General characterization of the doctrine ; Detailed analysis ; Hermetic influence on the continent ; Hermetic influence in England.

ISBN:

0520020219
9780520020214
0520038401
9780520038400

Sujet:

Occultism History.
Renaissance.
Occultism history
Occultisme Histoire.
Occultism
Okkultismus
Occultisme.
Occultism Europe History.
Science, Renaissance.
Geschichte 1500-1600.

Classification/genre:

History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 29257
Cote: PO10689; ID:88-B14918
Statut: Disponible