Cornelius Agrippa

"I chanced to find a volume of the morks of Cornelius Agrippa" (Shelley, 20).

Cornelius Agrippa, or Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, was a wall known scientist from the early sixteenth century. His most famous work, De occulta philosophiae, was a book about magic, or "hidden philosophy".

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