- For an exemplary study of popular magic and learned attitudes in their social context, see Martin Ruth Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Venice 1550–1650 Oxford 1989
- For some of the contrary evidence see, e.g. Vickers Brian Critical Reactions to the Occult Sciences During the Renaissance The Scientific Enterprise Ullmann-Margalit Edna Dordrecht 1992 43 92
- See, for example Fattori Marta Lessico del Novum Organum di Francesco Bacone Rome 1980 2 s.v. ‘anatomia’
- See Pérez-Ramos Antonio Francis Bacon's Idea of Science and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition Oxford 1988 especially chapter 13, ‘Propositional and Operative Knowledge in the Maker's Knowledge Tradition’ (pp. 150–166), and Fattori (footnote 3) s.vv. ‘operatio’, ‘operativa’, operativus’, ‘operor’.
- See, for example Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance Vickers Brian Cambridge 1984
- This issue was well studied in Walter Pagel's final book The Smiling Spleen. Paracelsianism in Storm and Stress Basel and Munich 1984
- See Brian Vickers's review of Renaissance medical learning: evolution and tradition, in Gesnerus McVaugh M.R. Siraisi N.G. 1993 50 148 155 (at p. 152 on Giovanni Argenterio)
- The outstanding book in French is by Simon Géard Kepler, astronome, astrologue Paris 1979 In English, Krafft overlooks Occult and Scientific Mentalities (footnote 4), which includes two relevant essays: Edward Rosen, ‘Kepler's attitude toward astrology and mysticism’ (pp. 253–72), and Judith Field, ‘Kepler's rejection of numerology’ (pp. 273–96).
- As a book it is well produced, with a mere half-dozen typographical errors, of which only one might be misleading, changing the late Erich Rothacker's name to Erika (p. 210) Central Station Lighting: Transformers v. Accumulators Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians 1888 17 and on p. 72, footnote 16, ‘partless’ cannot be right
Annals of Science
Volume 52, 1995 - Issue 1
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