Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: the cultural universe of a sixteenth-century Jewish physician Inc. Notepad measures 4

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Woven Roots explores the rich history of plant-based medicine and folk healing traditions of Eastern Europe from 1600 through the present

and The Lovers emerge from dark skies and swirling clouds

In this crucially important book

Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: the cultural universe of a sixteenth-century Jewish physician Inc. Notepad measures 4In describing the career of Abraham Yagel, a Jewish physician, kabbalist, and naturalist who lived in northern Italy from 1553 to about 1623, David Ruderman observes the remarkable interplay between early modern scientific thought and religious and occult traditions from a wholly new perspective: that of Jewish intellectual life. Whether he was writing about astronomical discoveries, demons, marvelous creatures and prodigies of nature, the uses of