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Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic

Roger Bacon's Letter Concerning the Marvelous Power of Art and of Nature and Concerning the Nullity of Magic

by Roger Bacon · Tenney L. Davis (trans.)

An English translation, with notes, of the Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae et de nullitate magiae attributed to Roger Bacon. The letter dismisses magicians' wonders as fraud and describes the marvels that art and nature could produce, ending with cryptic alchemical chapters.

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