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The Origin of the Magic Art
Adapted from Pliny the Elder's The Natural History
Translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley. London (1855)
Read and animated by Dan Attrell
You can read the full text here: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D30%3Achapter%3D1
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The Origin of the Magic Art
Adapted from Pliny the Elder's The Natural History
Translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley. London (1855)
Read and animated by Dan Attrell
You can read the full text here: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D30%3Achapter%3D1
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Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah in Italy 1280-1510. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. (https://amzn.to/2W1zszL)
Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, Fritz Saxl. Saturn and Melancholy. London: Nelson, 1964.
Saif, Liana. The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. (https://amzn.to/2Fg4Sg9)
Zafran, Eric. “Saturn and the Jews. ” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 42, 1979: 16-27.
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