Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy.
Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe.
Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.
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Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe
Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers
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Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Aristotelian philosophy and illusionism in late medieval Europe
- 2 The roles of experimentum and the vis imaginativa in medieval and early modern magic
- 3 The image of Aristotle as a magus and the Aristotelian foundation of magic in early modern Italy
- 4 Making and unmaking marvels in early modern Europe
- 5 Aristotelianism, chymistry and mechanics in early seventeenth-century Europe: The techno-magical approach
- 6 Aristotelianism, magic and experiments in early modern English meteorology
- 7 Natural magic, experimentalism and tarantism in a Dutch Aristotelian professor
- 8 The domestication of spirit power in a German handbook on natural magic
- Index
- Copyright
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