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Thābit ibn Qurra’s On Talismans between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and between the Science of the Stars and Magic (2021)

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Thābit ibn Qurra’s "On Talismans," after its translation from Arabic in the early twelfth century, was repeatedly defended as being a work of science rather than magic. By the late fifteenth century, however, it was a regular item in collections of magical texts. A Renaissance revision of the text (edited here), evidently made in the circle of Johannes Trithemius and Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, shows the character that it had assumed by the early sixteenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Mahboubeh Farkhondehzadeh
Americo, Maria
Bevilacqua, Gabriella
Porreca, David
Attrell, Dan
Zambelli, Paola
Journals
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Publishers
Pennsylvania State University Press
E. Rauner Verlag
Champion
Ashgate, Variorum
New York University
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Astrology
Astronomy
Magic
Arabic language
Talismans
People
Ptolemy
ibn Qurra, Thabit
Peurbach, Georg von
Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Abu Musa, Al-Tusi
al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqub ibn Isḥāq
Sa'id ibn Ahmad, al-Andalusi
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
8th century
Ancient
17th century
15th century
Places
Europe
Florence (Italy)
Spain
Italy
Hellenistic world
Mediterranean region
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