[Sca-cooks] Natural Magick was Spanish tomato sauce, late 16th c.? -- from Gerarde's Herball 1597

[Johnna Holloway]

Again another Italian volume.

This is also known as Natural Magick By John Baptista Porta.
Natural Magic 1558 expanded to 20 books 1589. English translation 1658.
Publisher: London : Printed for Thomas Young and Samuel Speed ..., 1658.
and that is up on EEBO Early English Books Online Ebook Collection.

see http://homepages.tscnet.com/omard1/jportat3.html
This Web site showcases the Natural Magick works of Giambattista della Porta (John Baptist Porta) from the 16th century. Known as a scholar of notable ability, Porta devoted great attention to the study of natural and physical science. The translation of his work presented here is the final compendium of his life's work, completed when he was 50-years-old.

You might like to read William Eamon's Science and the Secrets of nature which goes into all these books of secrets. I've had a copy for years.
(I did a large presentation on this topic of Closets and Cabinets in 2005.)

Johnnae, playing librarian


On Feb 15, 2011, at 4:44 PM, wheezul at canby.com wrote:

> Another source from BSB:
> 
> Della Porta, Giambattista: Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, Magiae
> naturalis libri viginti, Ab ipso quidem authore ante biennium adaucti,
> nunc vero ab infinitis, quibus editio illa scatebat mendis, optimè
> repurgati ... Acceßit Index, rem omnem dilucidè repraesentans,
> copiosißimus ..., Francofurti, 1591
> 
>