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From Paracelsus to Newton, Magic and the Making of Modern Science
by Charles Webster
Barnes and Nobel Books, New York, 1982, 107pp, HC.
[Europe 16-18C]

Chapters
1. Introduction
2. Prophecy
3. Spirtual magic
4. Demonic magic

Illustrations
1. Title page of Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica
2. Title page of John Woodall, The Surgeons Mate
3. Title page of Leonhart Reynmann, Practica uber die grossen und manigfeltigen Coniunction der Planeten
4. Title page of Paracelsus, Usslegung des Commeten...Anno 1531
5. Abrecth Dürer, 'Melencolia I' -- copy
6. Reverse of commemorative medal struck in 1666, of the comet and fire of London
7. 'Speculum Mundi'
8. 'The Apocalyptik Type'
9. Comenius, Frontispiece Emblem from Didactica Opera Omnia
10. Paracelsus, Prognostication auff XXIIII Jahr Zukünfftig
11. Title page, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
12. R. Fludd, Utriusque cosmi...metaphysica
13. Detail from Fludd, Utriusque
14. William Davisson, Commentariorum in P. Severinus Ideam medicinae philosophicae
15. Title page from Comenius, Didactica Opera Omnia
16. Ars Moriendi
17. Ars Moriendi
18. Ars Moriendi
19. Comenius, Orbis pictus
20. Frontispiece from Joseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus