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Magus - The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
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Category: History
At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure- the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to ...Show more
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton
39.95 AUD
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the af ...Show more
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