List of Authors
Renaissance authors writing on occult or magical topics include:
- Late Middle Ages to early Renaissance
- Johannes Hartlieb (ca. 1400–1468)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499)
- Thomas Norton (1433–1513)
- Johann Georg Faust (ca. 1480-1540)
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
- Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535)
- Paracelsus (1493–1541)
- Georg Pictorius (c. 1500-1569)
- Nostradamus (1503–1566)
- Johann Weyer (1516–1588)
- Thomas Charnock (1524–1581)
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525–1609)
- John Dee (1527–1608)
- Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
- Edward Kelley (1555–1597)
- Baroque period
- Basil Valentine (15th century- published since 1604)
- Nicolas Flamel (ca. 1330 or 1340- 1418?- published since 1612)
- Michael Sendivogius (1566–1636)
- Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639)
- Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577–1644)
- Franz Kessler (1580–1650)
- Adrian von Mynsicht (1603–1638)
- Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665)
- Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (1625–1709)
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727), see Isaac Newton's occult studies
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