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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

Guide to Secondary Sources (by Topic) in the history of science, technology & medicine

Art

Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture
Publication Date: 2019

Magic & Witchcraft

Crafting the Witch by Heidi Breuer
Publication Date: 2009

Astrology

Courting disaster : astrology at the English court and university in the later Middle Ages by Hilary M. Carey
Publication Date: 1992
Disclosure and discretion in Roman astrology : Manilius and his Augustan contemporaries by Steven J. Green
Publication Date: 2014
The Duke and the Stars by Monica Azzolini
Publication Date: 2013
Horoscopes and public spheres : essays on the history of astrology by Günther Oestmann; H. Darrel Rutkin; Kocku von Stuckrad
Publication Date: 2005
Mesopotamian astrology : an introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian celestial divination by Ulla Susanne Koch
Publication Date: 1995

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism by Jean-Pierre Brach (Editor); Antoine Faivre (As told to); Roelof Van Den Broek (As told to); W. J. Hanegraaff (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006

Bibliographies

A bibliography of books on conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850 by Trevor H. Hall
Publication Date: 1957

Early Modern Era

Hermeticism and the scientific revolution : papers read at a Clark Library seminar, March 9, 1974
Magic and technology in early modern Europe by Albert van Helden
Magic Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Stephen Clucas
Publication Date: 2011
The occult laboratory : magic, science, and second sight in late seventeenth-century Scotland by Michael C. W. Hunter; Robert Kirk
Publication Date: 2001
Occult Scientific Mentalities by Brian Vickers
Publication Date: 1986
Paracelsian moments : science, medicine, & astrology in early modern Europe by Gerhild Scholz Williams (Editor); Charles D. Gunnoe (Editor)
Publication Date: 2003
Secrets of nature : astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe by William R. Newman (Editor); Anthony Grafton (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006

Overviews

The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus : hermeticism from ancient to modern times by Florian Ebeling; David Lorton (Translator); Jan Assmann (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2007

Antiquity to Early Modern Era

Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe by Paola Zambelli
Publication Date: 2012
Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Kocku von Stuckrad
Publication Date: 2010
Magic in the cloister : pious motives, illicit interests, and occult approaches to the medieval universe by Sophie Page
Publication Date: 2013
Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer
Publication Date: 1989 1991 printing
Materia magica : the archaeology of magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain by Andrew T. Wilburn
Publication Date: 2012
The Presocratics and the Supernatural by Andrew Gregory
Publication Date: 2013
The transformations of magic : illicit learned magic in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance by Frank Klaassen
Publication Date: 2013

Enlightenment

Solomon's Secret Arts by Paul Kléber Monod
Publication Date: 2013

19th Century

The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult by Sarah Willburn (Editor); Tatiana Kontou
Publication Date: 2012
Investigating the Supernatural by Sofie Lachapelle
Publication Date: 2011
The Sympathetic Medium by Jill Galvan
Publication Date: 2010

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