Sheds light on the golden age of occult writingMagic could be made all-encompassing because language, belonging to a shared world view, allowed it to beGrafton suggests that the mathematical and mechanical magic that allowed Agrippa and Dee to send artificial birds or insects flying over a stage set would develop into the science that produced the machinery of the Industrial Revolution. -- Christopher Howse * The Telegraph * Graftons magi are an appealing gang, inasmuch as they turn out to have occupied the liminal space between what was faith and what would become fact. The intellectual fabric that their investigations wove, as Grafton entertainingly relays, was an entanglement of absurd system and authentic discovery, of systematic fraud and startling originality, of obvious nonsense and pregnant novelty. -- Adam Gopnik * New Yorker * Scholarly but marvellously readableNot for nothing is Grafton renowned as todays leading historian of Renaissance intellectual cultureas erudite as it is enchanting. -- Dmitri Levitin * Literary Review * [ A] richly informative study. -- William Tipper * Wall Street Journal * A brilliantly vivid exercise in intellectual history, as told through the biographies of the early modern magi, which will stir the thoughts of everyone who reads it. -- John Gray * New Statesman * Through the principal magi of the high Renaissance, Grafton examines the often uneasy, sometimes benecial, three-way relationship that existed between religion, magic and science. -- Stephanie Merritt * The Guardian * An engaging collection of marvels. -- Claire Fanger * Metascience * Magus offers a rich set of observations on an oft-neglected intellectual tradition during a turning point in Western thoughtMagic is once again beginning to merit serious study in the academy. -- Colin Dickey * Chronicle of Higher Education * A superb account of the astrologers, alchemists, and sorcerers who practiced natural magic in Europe from the Middle Ages through early modernityGrafton combines extensive research with a flair for the idiosyncrasies of biography, spinning charmingly digressive character portraitsThe result will delight readers interested in the historical intersection of art, science, and religion. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * A brilliant reassessment of the magus and the role of magic in the philosophical and practical worlds of Renaissance Europe. Graftons eloquent study profoundly expands our understanding of the range and intellectual context of thinkers such as Marsilio Ficino, Johannes Trithemius, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. In the process, it deepens our understanding of an entire era. -- Pamela O. Long, author of Engineering the Eternal City Magus is a thought-provoking study of natural magic and its early modern practitioners, the wandering European scholars who were at once praised as divinely inspired and denounced as diabolical charlatans. Carefully presenting these complex, elusive personalities on their own terms, Anthony Graftons analysis of the magi is as closely woven as their schemes for calling down the powers that bind the universe. -- Ingrid D. Rowland, author of From Pompeii Grafton brings clarity and verve to the study of Renaissance magicians, placing them in the motley company not only of humanists and Kabbalists, astrologers and necromancers, but also of cryptographers, forgers, and engineers. He surveys a world peopled by striking individuals whose magical adventures and speculations are inseparable from the personalities that animated them. -- Richard Kieckhefer, author of Magic in the Middle Ages A new understanding of the Renaissanceand a new understanding of magicsprings to life in this erudite, witty, and eminently readable book. -- Lauren Kassell, author of Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
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