The Book of Magic
Subtitle: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780241198568
Description: This book is a collection of texts that describe and debate magic in various aspects. The texts are arranged historically in eleven sections, starting with the wizardry of Moses in the Hebrew Bible and ending with a letter from Leibniz. Each section is introduced by a few pages of comment on the texts selected; these remarks are thematic, however, not chronological. Within each section, the texts themselves are in chronological order, more or less, if the chronology is known. A cursory headnote precedes each text. Cross-references in the headnotes point to other parts of the book.