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Giambattista della Porta was an early modern scholar who studied natural magic. In his work Magia Naturalis, he defined natural magic as the practical application of natural philosophy. The book covered topics like distillation, perfumes, fireworks, cooking, fishing and hunting, with the purpose of understanding and replicating natural and artificial phenomena. Della Porta viewed natural magic as a type of art (techne) in the Aristotelian sense, since it involved hands-on skills and the ability to manipulat

Author

Roberto Taddei

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