By Lauren Kassell

Simon Forman (1552-1611) is considered one of London's such a lot notorious astrologers. while he used to be consulted hundreds of thousands of instances a yr for scientific and different questions he stood except the clinical elite as he boldly asserted scientific principles that have been at odds with such a lot discovered physicians. during this interesting booklet, Lauren Kassell vividly recovers the realm of medication and magic in Elizabethan London.

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The annual calculation for his th year. ,  Jan. , see Ashm. , fo. r–v. For Dee’s diaries see Ashm.  and ; cf. The private diary of Dr. John Dee, and the catalogue of his library and manuscripts, ed. James Halliwell, Camden Society,  (). The Diaries of John Dee, ed. Edward Fenton (Charlbury, ) constructs a seamless narrative from many of Dee’s life-writings. For interleaved English almanacs see Mascuch, Origins of the Individualist, . . Simon Forman’s nativity, Ashm.

For the suggestion that Fludd copied a book of Forman’s see Lilly, Life, –: ‘for I have seen the same word for word in an English manuscript formerly belonging to Dr Willoughby of Gloucestershire’. ⁴⁶ Pierre Brind’Amour, Nostradamus astrophile: Les Astres et l’astrologie dans la vie et l’oeuvre de Nostradamus (Paris, ). ⁴⁷ Cf. ), Medicine at the Courts of Europe (), –. Introduction  this book tells about the circulation of esoteric texts, the politics of medicine, the popularity of astrology, the vagaries of Paracelsianism, and the powers of magic.

Fo. . ⁵⁹ Ashm. , fo. v. ⁶⁰ Ashm. , fos. , v. Forman filled twelve notebooks with transcriptions of alchemical texts. These are now bound in Ashm. , , and . ⁶¹ Ashm. , fos. –v; v–v; , fo. v. See George Ripley’s Compound of Alchemy, ed. Stanton J. Linden (Aldershot, ). For Villanova see Thorndike, Magic and Experimental Science, ii, ch. ; iii, ch. . ⁶⁷ Throughout this period Forman lived in Salisbury. When things went well he made money from practising medicine or tutoring children, when they went poorly he had little money or was imprisoned.

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