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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Occultism and Esotericism

Library and internet resources for research on Medieval and Early Modern science and medicine

Overview

Intended as an overview of available material on occultism, esotericism and hermeticism. Grouped into the following categories:

Occultism
Esotericism
Giordano Bruno
John Dee

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates
Call Number: B783.Z7 Y3 1991
Giordano Bruno by Ingrid D. Rowland
Call Number: B783.Z7 R595 2008
Giordano Bruno by Michele Ciliberto
Call Number: B783.Z7 C44 2000
Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah by Karen S. Deleon-Jones
Call Number: B783.Z7 D44 1997
Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science by Hilary Gatti
Call Number: Q143.B795 G37 1999
Bibliografia di Giordano Bruno, 1582-1950 by Luigi Firpo (Editor)
Call Number: B783.Z69 B43 1958
Bibliografia di Giordano Bruno, 1951-2000 by Maria Elena Severini (Editor)
Call Number: B783.Z69 B432 2002

John Dee

John Dee : the world of an Elizabethan magus by Peter French
Call Number: BF1598.D5 F73 1987
John Dee's Conversations with Angels by Deborah E. Harkness
Call Number: BF1598.D5 H37 1999

ISBN: 052162228X
John Dee's Natural Philosophy by Nicholas H. Clujee
Call Number: BF1598.D5 C58 1988
John Dee: interdisciplinary studies in English Renaissance thought by Stephen Clucas (Editor)
Call Number: BF1598.D5 J65 2006

Occultism

Della Porta, Magiae Naturalis (1664)

Spiritual and Demonic Magic by D. P. Walker
Call Number: BF1593 .W2 1975
Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
Call Number: BR377 .T48 1971b
The Occult in the Western World: an annotated bibliography by Cosette Kies
Call Number: BF1411 .K53 1986

Publication Date: 1986-08-01
Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance by Brian Vickers
Call Number: BF1429 .O26 1984
History of Magic and Experimental Science by Lynn Thorndike
Call Number: Q125 .T52 1923
White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance by Paola Zambelli
Call Number: BF1593 .Z36 2007
Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance by William Huffman
Call Number: BF1598.F58 H83 1988

Esotericism

Religion and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Medicine by Walter Pagel; Marianne Winder (Editor)
Call Number: R147.P2 P29 1985
From Paracelsus to Newton : magic and the making of modern science by Charles Webster
Self and cosmos in Thoth Hermes Trismegistus, Meister Eckhart and Paracelsus by Elizabeth Ann Ambrose
Tommaso Campanella by Germana Ernst
Call Number: B785.C24 E7713 2010
Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion by John Brooke (Editor); Ian MacLean (Editor)
Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World by John M. Headley
Call Number: B785.C24 H43 1997
The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: the life and thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) by Allison P. Coudert
Call Number: BM526 .C68 1999
The silent language : the symbols of hermetic philosophy
Call Number: QD26 .B5 1994

Exhibition in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica.
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus by Florian Ebeling; David Lorton (Translator)
Call Number: BF1589 .E2513 2007
The Hermetica : an annotated bibliography by Elizabeth Ann Ambrose
Call Number: BF1588 .A42 1992