Chapter ID: CBB000041428

The power of magic and the poverty of erudition: Magic in the universal library (1992)

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Copenhaver, Brian P. (Author)


Pages: 159-179
Publication date: 1992


Description “In the 17th century, some thinkers came to prefer reason and current experience to erudition and past authority, thus creating an epistemic divide that distinguishes the age of Ficino and his imitators from the time of Descartes and his followers ... This change can best be illustrated by comparing the critical works of Gabriel Naudé, a librarian who did not make the transition, with the philosophy of René Descartes, who made it most emphatically. Both Naudé and Descartes despised what the Renaissance called `the occult philosophy,' but they hated it in different ways and with different results.”


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Authors & Contributors
Bianchi, Lorenzo
Álvarez Muñoz, Evaristo
Bader, Franz
Beaude, Joseph
Leibowitz, Flora L.
Marin, Louis
Journals
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Corpus: Revue de Philosophie
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana
Les Conférences de la Société Philomathique de Paris
Publishers
Vrin
Bibliopolis
Bouvier
De Lucca
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Presses Universitaires de France
Concepts
Science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Philosophy
Aristotelianism
Communication
Science and religion
People
Descartes, René
Naudé, Gabriel
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Campanella, Tommaso
Dal Pozzo, Cassiano
Desgabets, Robert
Time Periods
17th century
Renaissance
Places
France
Italy
Rome (Italy)
Spain
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