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27How to do magic, and why: philosophical prescriptionsIn James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 137. 2007.
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33A Tale Of Two Fishes: Magical Objects In Natural History From Antiquity Through The Scientific RevolutionJournal of the History of Ideas 52 (3): 373-398. 1991.
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16Peter of Spain: Summaries of Logic: Text, Translation, Introduction, and Notes (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.For nearly four centuries Peter of Spain's influential Summaries of Logic was the basis for teaching logic; few university texts were read by more people. This new translation presents the Latin and English on facing pages, and comes with an extensive introduction, chapter-by-chapter analysis, notes, and a full bibliography.
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8Les alchimistes grecs. Volume I, Papyrus de Leyde, papyrus de Stockholm, fragments de recettes. Robert Halleux (review)Isis 74 (1): 124-124. 1983.
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29Valla Our Contemporary: Philosophy and PhilologyJournal of the History of Ideas 66 (4): 507-525. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Valla Our Contemporary:Philosophy and PhilologyBrian P. CopenhaverEven before the Italians knew what to call their Renaissance, they knew the names of its heroes, one of whom was Lorenzo Valla. Accordingly, by the time Count Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere published one of the first modern histories of Italian philosophy in 1834, Valla's place in the story of that subject had long been established-for Italians, at least. "He began by r…Read more
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21Sacralizing the Secular: The Renaissance Origins of ModernityJournal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 611-613. 1990.
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2Maimonides, abulafia and pico. A secret Aristotle for the renaissanceRinascimento 46 23-51. 2006.
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18Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1991.The Hermetica are a body of mystical texts written in late antiquity, but believed during the Renaissance (when they became well known) to be much older. Their supposed author, a mythical figure named Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses. The Hermetic philosophy was regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the revealed wisdom of the Bible, supporting Biblical revelation and culminating in the Platonic philosophical tradition. This new translation is the only English…Read more
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517The strange Italian voyage of Thomas Reid: 1800–60British Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (4). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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35LeFevre d'etaples, symphorien champier, and the secret names of GodJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 40 (1): 189-211. 1977.
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1Astrology and magicIn C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler & Jill Kraye (eds.), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 264--300. 1988.
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66Ten Arguments in Search of a Philosopher: Averroes and Aquinas in Ficino's Platonic TheologyVivarium 47 (4): 444-479. 2009.In book 15 of his Platonic Theology on the Immortality of the Soul , Marsilio Ficino names Averroes and the Averroists as his opponents, though he does not say which particular Averroists he has in mind. The key position that Ficino attributes to Averroes—that the Intellect is not the substantial form of the body—is not one that Averroes holds explicitly, though he does claim explicitly that the Intellect is not a body or a power in a body. Ficino's account of what Averroes said about the soul's…Read more
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