1712 Apologie by Naude MAGIC Sorcery Alchemy Occult Merlin Demons Agrippa Bacon

1712 Apologie by Naude MAGIC Sorcery Alchemy Occult Merlin Demons Agrippa Bacon

 

Gabriel Naude was a 17^th-century French scholar who published works on library sciences. However, his most controversial work was his book ‘Apologie pour tous les grands personages faussement soupçonnez de magie’. More commonly known as ‘Apology for Great Men Suspected of Magic’, this book was Naude’s defense of great philosophers and theologians who were suspected of and condemned for practicing magic and astrology. He defended the work of figures such as Pythagoras, Socrates, Merlin, Thomas Aquinas, and even King Solomon.

 

In 1625, when ‘Apologie’ was first published, demonic magic and demonism were considered highly heretical. Naude was intending to teach the church how to read the works of these famed figures and how they should learn from them rather than assuming these church and philosophical cornerstones were practicing demonic magic. (Horowitz)

 

Item number: #11265

Price: $750

 

NAUDE, Gabriel

 

Apologie pour les grands hommes soupconnez de magie

 

Amsterdam : chez Jean Frederic Bernard, 1712.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • [18], 470
• References: Maryanne Horowitz, Gabriel Naude’s Apology for Great Men’ 61-75;
• Provenance: Bookplate – Ant. Louis, Acad. Reg. Chirurg. Secretar. Perpet.
  • Antoine Louis (1723 – 1792) was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist.
  • As a young man he moved to Paris, where he served as gagnant-maîtrise at the Salpêtrière. In 1750 he was appointed professor of physiology, a position he held for 40 years. In 1764 he was appointed lifetime secretary to the Académie Royale de Chirurgie.
  • Louis published numerous articles on surgery, including several biographies of surgeons who died in his lifetime. He also published the surgical aphorisms of Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738).
  • Louis is credited with designing a prototype of the guillotine. For a period after its invention, the guillotine was called a louisette.
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~6in X 4in (15cm x 10cm)

 

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