Magia, ştiinţa Renaşterii
Magic, the Science of the Renaissance

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this article is the recent edition of Ioan Petru Culianu’s “Iocari Serio. Science and Art in the Renaissance Thinking” Polirom Publishing House 2003. In this early piece of work the scholar and scientist Ioan Petru Culianu argues that the modern science’ place as an absolute modality of knowledge was held in the Renaissance by magic. Magic was placed in the middle of the Renaissance thinking and the access to knowledge through magic acquired different forms and different goals.

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