Magus : the Art of magic from Faustus to Agrippa

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Magus : the Art of magic from Faustus to Agrippa / Anthony Grafton. - London : Penguin Books, 2025. - [10], 289 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Grafton Anthony. Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska

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Alchemia Czarownice i czarownicy Eksperymenty Filozofowie Intelektualiści Magia Mistyka Renesans Uczone i uczeni

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Filozofia i etyka Historia

Książka w języku angielskim. "Magus" details the arts and experiences of learned magicians including Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Trithemius, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Grafton explores their methods, the knowledge they produced, the services they provided, and the overlapping political and social milieus to which they aspired--often, the circles of kings and princes. During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, these erudite men anchored debates about licit and illicit magic, the divine and the diabolical, and the nature of "good" and "bad" magicians. Over time, they turned magic into a complex art, which drew on contemporary engineering as well as classical astrology, probed the limits of what was acceptable in a changing society, and promised new ways to explore the self and exploit the cosmos. Resituating the magus in the social, cultural, and intellectual order of Renaissance Europe, Grafton sheds new light on both the recesses of the learned magician's mind and the many worlds he inhabited.

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