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Occult Sciences in the Renaissance A Study in Intellectual Patterns [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (History)
  • Author:  Shumaker, Wayne
  • Author:  Shumaker, Wayne
  • ISBN-10:  0520038401
  • ISBN-10:  0520038401
  • ISBN-13:  9780520038400
  • ISBN-13:  9780520038400
  • Publisher:  University of California Press
  • Publisher:  University of California Press
  • Pages:  287
  • Pages:  287
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-1979
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-1979
  • SKU:  0520038401-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0520038401-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100236665
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"The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences." - Times Literary Supplement

Wayne Shumakeris Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley.

"The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences." - Times Literary Supplement

"The . . . usefulness of this book for students of Renaissance literature and culture will not soon be ended." - Virginia Quarterly Review

"The absence of contaminating traces either of condescension or of credulousness give this absorbing volume a special authority and place on the shelves of any reader or any library where the history of modern thoughts is relevant." - Scientific American

"A remarkable summary and analysis of the five systems of esoteric science so influential in the Renaissance." - Milton Quarterly

"A magnificent job of tying together a vast number of diverse sources into a unified whole . . . engrossing in its entirety." -The Sciences
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