Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Variorum Collected Studies)

Product description Review 'This is rigorous, high-level scholarship, essential for anyone interested in the disciplinary contexts or intellectual traditions of early modern alchemy and chemistry. By placing his subjects within appropriate theological and philosophical milieu, Clucas offers a persuasive account of how the spiritual dimensions of disciplines such as alchemy contributed to the rise of the empirical natural philosophy.' Ambix 'Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries will be primarily of interest to historians of science and magic in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its usefulness is enhanced by an index.' Sixteenth Century Studies Journal '... richly documented and varied essays... organised around a number of specific themes disposed in a historical sequence that give the volume a unity of narrative and intent that not all collections of essays possess.' Aestimatio 'Taken together, this is an impressive collection, combative where it has to be, but thoroughly based on a deep understanding of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance mind.' Renaissance Quarterly About the Author Stephen Clucas is Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History at Birkbeck, University of London, U.K., and is co-Editor of the journal Intellectual History Review.