Editor's preface Introduction Brian Vickers 1. At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's Archemastrie Nicholas H. Clulee 2. The occult tradition in the English universities of the Renaissance: a reassessment Mordechai Feingold 3. Analogy versus identity: the rejection of occult symbolism, 1580-1680 Brian Vickers 4. Marin Mersenne: Renaissance naturalism and Renaissance magic William L. Hine 5. Nature, art, and psyche: Jung, Pauli, and the Kepler-Fludd polemic Robert S. Westman 6. The interpretation of natural signs: Cardano's De subtilitate versus Scaliger's Exercitationes Ian Maclean 7. Kepler's attitude toward astrology and mysticism Edward Rosen 8. Kepler's rejection of numerology Judith V. Field 9. Francis Bacon's biological ideas: a new manuscript source Graham Rees 10. Newton and alchemy Richard S. Westfall 11. Witchcraft and popular mentality in Lorraine, 1580-1630 Robin Briggs 12. The scientific status of demonology Stuart Clark 13. 'Reason,' 'right reason,' and 'revelation' in mid-seventeenth-century England Lotte Mulligan Index.
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Thomas H. Jobe (1986) studied this question.