Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | Free Book
Stephen Clucas
This collection of Stephen Clucas's articles addresses the complex
interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the
Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee show that the angelic
conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to medieval magical
traditions and how Dee's attempts to communicate with spirits were
used to serve specific religious agendas in the mid-seventeenth
century. The essays devoted to Giordano Bruno offer a reappraisal of
the magical orientation of the Italian philosopher's mnemotechnical
and Lullist writings of the 1580s and 90s and show his influence on
early seventeenth-century English understandings of memory and
intellection. Next come three studies on the atomistic or
corpuscularian natural philosophy of the Northumberland and Cavendish
circles, arguing that there was a distinct English corpuscularian
tradition prior to the Gassendian influence in the 1640s and 50s.
Finally, two essays on the seventeenth-century Intelligencer Samuel
Hartlib and his correspondents shows how religion alchemy and natural
philosophy interacted during the 'Puritan Revolution'.
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