Science and magic

Goldie, Mark. The occult laboratory magic, science and second sight in late seventeenth-century Scotland. Engl Hist Rev 117 (Jun 2002) 647-649. 

Theology—Fanatics and free-thinkers—Astrology, alchemy, and magic —Science and philosophy.—History.—Politics and statesmanship —Satire —Poetry —Drama and romance — Booksellers and publishers —Some literary martyrs —Index. 

Bronowski, Jacob. Magic, science and civilization. New York Columbia Univ. 

Karin Johannison, "Magic, Science, and Institutionalization in the 17th and 18th centuries," in Hermeticism in the Renaissance (see 6A, above), pp. 151-162. 

My analysis of the distinction between ritual and technical acts follows closely the standard anthropological view. See especially Bronislaw Malinowski, Magic, Science, and Religion. 

Hill, Christopher. "Science and magic in seventeenth-century England." In Culture, ideology and politics essays for Eric Hobsbawm, eds. R. Samuel and Gareth Stedman Jones, 176-193., 1983. 

McCulloch, Samuel Clyde. "John Dee Elizabethan doctor of science and magic." In Renaissance magic, ed. Brian P. Levack. New York Garland, 1992. 

Wolley, Benjamin. The Queen s Conjurer the science and magic of Dr. John Dee, advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. Henry Holt Company, 2001. ISBN 0805065091... 

Burton, Dan and David Grandy. Magic, mystery, and science the occult in Western civilization. Bloomington (IN) Indiana Univ P, 2004. xii, 390 p. ISBN 0-253-21656-7... 

Waite, Arthur Edward. The occult sciences a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment, embracing an account of magical practices of secret sciences in connection with magic of the professors of magical arts and of modem spiritualism, mesmerism and theosophy. London K. Paul, Trench, Trubner 8c Co. Ltd, 1891. viii,... 

Copenhaver, Brian P. "Natural magic, Hermeticism and occultism in early modern science." In Reappraisals of the scientific revolution, eds. David C. Lindberg and Robert L. Westman. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 1990. 

Hall, Alfred Rupert. "Magic, metaphysics, and mysticism in the scientific revolution." In Reason experiment, and mysticism in the scientific revolution, eds. M. L. Righini Bonelli and W. R. Shea. London Science History Publications, 1975. 

Gouk, Penelope M. Music, science and natural magic in seventeenth-century England. New haven (CT) Yale Univ P, 1999. xii, 308p. ISBN 0-300-07-383—6... 

Software development continues to be, as always, a difficult and fascinating mixture of art, science, black magic, engineering, and hype. Major advancements have been proposed in the past, and not all of them have delivered what was promised. Object technology, open distributed systems, component technology, and rapid iterative development are all current approaches. Catalysis defines an approach that covers all of them. 

The definition goes on to explain magic as, the use of means (as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces. 1 This would seem to fit most people s idea of magic, but this definition contains the disclaimer believed. This brings up the second essential problem. Modern science views magic as a superstition. This is in spite of the fact that magic, especially in the form of alchemy, is the ancestor of science and an accepted part of ancient Western culture. Also, many people in the West today and in other parts of the world continue to believe in and practice magic. 

Magic, however, is not simply primitive technology, unchristian, or superstition. It is the origin of both religion and science and has some qualities of each but not entirely of either one. It is a field of study that lies between the two. This may be one reason why both religion and... 

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