Book

The Hermetic Tradition in Renaissance Science

Programmatic essay arguing that the Renaissance magus's operative stance prepared a mental shift toward experimental and mathematical natural science.

Author: Frances A. Yates
Type: Book
Written: 1967
Edition: 1968
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press (as the publisher of the host edited volume by C. S. Singleton, not of a Yates-authored book)
Language: English
Tradition: Hermeticism
Identifiers: ISBN9780801806025 (host volume, Singleton ed.); 9780710201843 (Yates, Collected Essays vol. III, Routledge 1984)