Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, the 'Scientific Swindler'
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Criminalia
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Publication Date |
Jan 11, 2022
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00:23:36

More than 500 years after his death, Heinrich Agrippa is considered one of the most influential occult philosophers of the early modern period. But not everyone in his lifetime was pleased with his theories and experimentation. While his work was denounced as heretical, it, and the work of fellow alchemists, laid the foundation for what we now call chemistry.

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A German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer, Heinrich Agrippa is considered one of the most influential alchemists of the early modern period -- though denounced as heretical by the Church.

More than 500 years after his death, Heinrich Agrippa is considered one of the most influential occult philosophers of the early modern period. But not everyone in his lifetime was pleased with his theories and experimentation. While his work was denounced as heretical, it, and the work of fellow alchemists, laid the foundation for what we now call chemistry.

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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