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Paracelsus, five hundred years: three American exhibits, 1993

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ExhibitionAn Extraordinary Life

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1. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa

Artist: R. Cooper
Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Cornelius Agrippa’s work La Philosophie Occulte was one of the most widely read and respected books on the magical arts.

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