“When I returned home, my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.” (Shelley 7).
Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus were both scientists who studied and did work similar to that of Cornelius Agrippa. Albertus Magnus, born in 1208 in Germany, was an alchemist and a chemist, and believed in the properties of natural elements in promoting psychic abilities. He was later canonized as Saint Albert the Great. (http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/m/magnus_albertus.html) Paracelsus, born in 1493, studied alchemy, surgery, and medicine. (http://www.alchemylab.com/paracelsus.htm)
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