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“Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.”

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Giambattista della Porta

Giambattista della Porta was an Italian Renaissance scholar, inventor, and writer known for his research in optics, chemistry, and natural philosophy. He is considered one of the pioneers of early experimental science. more

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