Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) was a German scholar, physician and writer on occult philosophy.
Established His De occulta philosophia libri tres (Three Books of Occult Philosophy) was printed in full in 1533 and organised natural, celestial and ceremonial magic into a single system drawing on Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and Christian Cabala.[1] Established In 1530 he also published De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum, a sceptical attack on the sciences, including magic.[2] Tradition / belief Later legends made Agrippa a sorcerer with a demonic black dog; these stories come from his opponents and do not appear in his own writings.[3]
References
- ↑ H.C. Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1651). English trans. by "J.F."; public domain; Internet Archive.
- ↑ H.C. Agrippa, Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences (1569). English trans. by James Sanford; public domain.
- ↑ Discussion in Charles G. Nauert, Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance Thought (1965). Cited only.
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