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By medieval classifications, the Kitāb al-nawāmīs is a work of natural magic (sīmāʾ, magia naturalis) as opposed to ritual magic. [7] [8] That is, it is "based solely on the exploitation of the hidden forces of nature" and does not directly involve demons or other spirits. [7] Modern scholars have employed many terms.
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.
Giambattista della Porta (Italian pronunciation: [dʒambatˈtista della ˈpɔrta]; 1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Counter-Reformation.
Magia Naturalis – Book by Giambattista della Porta; Protoscience – Research field with some scientific qualities; Thomas Vaughan – Welsh philosopher (1621–1666) White magic – Magic used for selfless purposes
Vis medicatrix naturae (literally "the healing power of nature", and also known as natura medica) is the Latin rendering of the Greek Νόσων φύσεις ἰητροί ("Nature is the physician(s) of diseases"), a phrase attributed to Hippocrates.
Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples. First publication of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt's 13th century Epistola de magnete, edited by Achilles Gasser and printed in Augsburg.
Carlyle thought of Natural Supernaturalism as a corrective to the errors of the Enlightenment, as his journal entry for 13 February 1833 shows:. That the Supernatural differs not from the Natural is a great truth, which the last century (especially in France) has been engaged in demonstrating.
Quintus Gargilius Martialis (fl. c. 260) was a third-century Roman writer on horticulture, botany, and medicine.He has been identified by some with the military commander of the same name, mentioned in a Latin inscription of 260 as having lost his life in the colony of Auzia in Mauretania Caesariensis. [1]