Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe
Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers
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- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 23 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350357204
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 229x150x8 mm
- Weight 360 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 bw illus 673
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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.
Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Donato Verardi (University of London, UK)
1. Aristotelian Philosophy and Illusionism in Late Mediaeval Europe, Thibaut Rioult (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
2. The Roles of Experimentum and the Vis Imaginativa in Mediaeval and Early Modern Magic, Peter G. Maxwell-Stuart (University of St Andrews, UK)
3. The Image of Aristotle as a Magus, and the Aristotelian Foundation of Magic in Early Modern Italy, Donato Verardi (The Warburg Institute - University of London, UK)
4. Making and Unmaking Marvels in Early Modern Europe, William Eamon (New Mexico State University, USA)
5. Aristotelianism, Chymistry, and Mechanics in Early Seventeenth Century Europe: The Techno-Magical Approach, Arianna Borrelli (RWTH Aachen University and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
6. Aristotelianism, Magic, and Experiments in Early Modern English Meteorology, Jennifer Mori (University of Toronto, Canada)
7. Natural Magic, Experimentalism, and Tarantism in a Dutch Aristotelian Professor, Manuel De Carli (University of Tours, France)
8. The Domestication of Spirit Power in a German Handbook on Natural Magic, Michael Pickering (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers
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