Frontispiece of an English translation of Natural Magick published in London in 1658.
Magia Naturalis (in English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity ensured it was republished in five Latin editions within ten years, with translations into Italian (1560), French, (1565) Dutch (1566) and English (1658) printed.
Natural Magic was revised and considerably expanded throughout the author's lifetime; its twenty books (Naples 1589) include observations upon geology, optics, medicines, poisons, cooking, metallurgy, magnetism, cosmetics, perfumes, gunpowder, and invisible writing.
Natural Magic is an example of pre-Baconian science. Its sources include the ancient learning of Pliny the Elder and Theophrastus as well as numerous scientific observations made by Della Porta.
MagiaNaturalis (in English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity...
posset. The citation is noted by Kircher's student Gaspar Schott in MagiaNaturalis naturae et artis, Part 2, Book 6, Pragmatia 2, titled "Felium Musicam...
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ceremonies. Giambattista della Porta expanded on many of these ideas in his MagiaNaturalis. It is the coming-together of these ideas - early "natural" religions...
considered evil and heretical, in contrast to theurgia (theurgy) and magianaturalis (natural magic), which were sometimes considered more noble. Heinrich...
scholars. His most famous work, first published in 1558, is entitled MagiaNaturalis (Natural Magic). In this book he covered a variety of the subjects...
unseemly man-beast coupling in Giambattista Della Porta's edition of Magianaturalis (1589), a potpourri of the sensible and questionable, erroneously citing...
more positive reassessment through the development of the concept of magianaturalis (natural magic). This was a term introduced and developed by two Italian...
works, grimoires on natural magic continued to be produced, including MagiaNaturalis, written by Giambattista Della Porta (1535–1615). Iceland held magical...
antiquity and was described as such by Giambattista della Porta in his MagiaNaturalis (1558–1589). In 1646, Athanasius Kircher described an experiment with...
"obscurum cubiculum", in the 1558 first edition of his book series MagiaNaturalis. He suggested to use a convex lens to project the image onto paper...
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observation-led discussion by Giambattista della Porta in his 1558 MagiaNaturalis. Quench press Tempering Martempering Austempering Hardening (metallurgy)...
including books of secrets such as Giambattista Della Porta's 1558 "MagiaNaturalis" and Isabella Cortese's 1561 "Secreti". The 17th century saw the beginnings...
watch solar eclipses. Giambattista Della Porta wrote in 1558 in his MagiaNaturalis about using a concave mirror to project the image onto paper and to...
Christianity. Giambattista della Porta expanded on many of these ideas in his MagiaNaturalis. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola promoted a syncretic worldview combining...
published about the ancient art of projecting mirror writing in his book MagiaNaturalis. Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel, who is a likely inventor of the microscope...
back to 1550. Giambattista della Porta's very popular and influential MagiaNaturalis helped popularize the camera obscura. In the 1558 first edition of...
Reformation. His most famous work, first published in 1558, is entitled MagiaNaturalis (Natural Magic). In this book he covered a variety of the subjects...
of superposed loads is made by Giambattista della Porta in his book MagiaNaturalis (published in 1558), wherein he describes a brass gun that could discharge...
vinegar, as well as the first book on secret writing and invisible inks, MagiaNaturalis (1558, 1589).: 24 Since then, a wide variety of invisible inks have...
lynx-eyed, sharp-eyed) ones' came from Giambattista della Porta's book MagiaNaturalis, which had an illustration of the fabled cat on the cover and the words...
2005. doi:10.1002/14356007.a23_661 della Porta, Giambattista (1569). Magianaturalis sive de miraculis rerum naturalium, libri iiii [Natural magic or on...
großer und gewaltiger Höllenzwang (Frankfurt 1609) Dr. Johannes Faust, Magianaturalis et innaturalis (Passau 1612) Das Pfitzer'sche Faustbuch (1674) Dr....
"magicians" and "witches" seemed commonplace. In the 1589 version of MagiaNaturalis, Giambattista della Porta described how to scare people with a projected...
Porta (1535–1615), Renaissance sage, physician and botanist, author of MagiaNaturalis Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), mathematician, astronomer, physicist, philosopher...
Gerolamo Cardano (De subtilitate, 1552) and Giambattista Della Porta (MagiaNaturalis, 1598), and there is an original chapter on talismans. The Grand Albert...
form of useful recipes. Others, such as Giambattista Della Porta's MagiaNaturalis (Natural Magic, 1558) deployed practical recipes in an effort to demonstrate...
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