Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane
in twenty books : wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences
- First published:
- 17th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Primary source
[8], 409, [7] p. : 28 cm. (fol.) Title printed in red and black; woodcut title vignette; woodcut illustrations (from title-page) 1. Of the causes of wonderful things -- 2. Of the generation of animals -- 3. Of the production of new plants -- 4. Of increasing houshold-stuff -- 5. Of changing metals -- 6. Of counterfeiting gold -- 7. Of the wonders of the load-stone -- 8. Of strange curses -- 9. Of beautifying women -- 10. Of distillation -- 11. Of purfuming -- 12. Of artificial fires -- 13. Of tempering steel -- 14. Of cookery -- 15. Of fishing, fowling, hunting, &c. -- 16. Of invisible writing -- 17. Of strange glasses -- 18. Of statick experiments -- 19. Of pneumatick experiments -- 20. Of the Chaos
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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires.
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “magick” in the title, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and “magick” in the edition title.
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- “magick”· in edition title
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
in twenty books : wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1658-01-01T00:00:00Z | London : Printed for Thomas Young, and Samuel Speed ... | English | — | Public digitized item |
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- Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
- Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
- Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
- Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
- Scanner: scribe2.santamonica.archive.org
- Catalog id
- internet-archive:naturalmagickbyj00port
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