Renaissance Magic - List of Authors

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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