Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe (repost)
Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr | 2008 | ISBN: 0271033770 | 312 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr | 2008 | ISBN: 0271033770 | 312 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
During the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as well as alchemy, astrology, and talismanic magic. The line between the scientific and the magical was blurred.