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Excerpt from Notes on Some Books of Technical Receipts, or So-Called "Secrets"
I. There are collections of secrets of nature, or treatises on natural history, general science, and cosmogony. Of this set, Pliny's history seems to have been the model.
II. There are treatises on what was called natural magic (as distinguished from black magic or necromancy) - that is, the pro duction of secret effects in Optics, acoustics, magnetism, &c., &c., by natural causes. This is the form which natural philosophy originally took.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0366501461
- ISBN 13 9780366501465
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages24
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