“New Books Will Be Needed”: History, Magic, and Nature in Early Print, by Myron Groover
Room 1105 of the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery
10/09/2022, 8:00 pm - TO 10/09/2022 - 9:30 pm
Organizer: The Hamilton Association (HAALSA)
Myron Groover, Archives and Rare Books Librarian at McMaster, discusses several consequential early modern books that attempted to pull together ideas about the world in the 15th and 16th century: The Nuremberg Chronicle, Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy and Aldrovandi’s Natural History. This talk marks the return of in-person public lectures at McMaster organized by the Hamilton Association. More details at www.haalsa.org