isis unveiled: xi (magical history)

"There are not a few well-meaning men in the present century who, desiring to avenge the memory of such martyrs of science as Agrippa, Palissy, and Cardan, nevertheless fail, through lack of means, to understand their ideas rightly. They erroneously believe that the Neo-Platonists gave more attention to transcendental philosophy than to exact science. "The [...]