Some aspects of the magical tradition were recognized by early modern thinkers as useful, and by implication, valid or true, while other aspects of the tradition were either ignored or rejected, and were by implication held to be invalid or false. The main aim of this article is to demonstrate that this was not just a feature of magical ideas as far as Newton was concerned, but was in fact the more general fate of the magical tradition. Some aspects of the tradition were taken up by practitioners and became absorbed into reformed versions of natural philosophy, while other aspects of the tradition were rejected.
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