The Lynx and the Telescope: The Parallel Worlds of Federico Cesi and Galileo. Paolo Galluzzi. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 21. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xvi + 522 pp. $159.
occult philosophy’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. The task, therefore, is to sort out true from false promises and earnest from mercenary practitioners. This has always been the task, in fact, Napier’s occultism included. A final thought: to safeguard aura, one can buy a beaker of psychic vampire repellent from Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop store. The price is twenty-seven dollars, plus shipping, though shipping will be difficult at present. The website tells me “this item is sold out.”