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<p>In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors. Astrology was one of the many intellectual tools--along with what we consider to be the superior tools of social and political analysis--that Renaissance thinkers used to attack practical and intellectual problems. It was a coherent body of practices, strongly supported by social institutions. And alchemy was not viewed prima
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- Author
- William Royall Newman; Anthony Grafton
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262140751
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Psychology, Religion, Body Mind & Spirit
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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