This collection of Stephen Clucas's articles addresses the complex
interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the
Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee show that the angelic
conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to medieval
magical traditions and how Dee's attempts to communicate with
spirits were used to serve specific religious agendas in the
mid-seventeenth century. The essays devoted to Giordano Bruno offer
a reappraisal of the magical orientation of the Italian
philosopher's mnemotechnical and Lullist writings of the 1580s and
90s and show his influence on early seventeenth-century English
understandings of memory and intellection. Next come three studies
on the atomistic or corpuscularian natural philosophy of the
Northumberland and Cavendish circles, arguing that there was a
distinct English corpuscularian tradition prior to the Gassendian
influence in the 1640s and 50s. Finally, two essays on the
seventeenth-century Intelligencer Samuel Hartlib and his
correspondents shows how religion alchemy and natural philosophy
interacted during the 'Puritan Revolution'.
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