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[344] “Apologie pour tous les grands personnages faussement accusés de magie.”
[345] Berlin, 1817.
[346] “Nova Medicina Spirituum,” 1675.
[347] “History of Magic.”
[348] It would be a useless and too long labor to enter here upon the defence of Kepler’s theory of relation between the five regular solids of geometry and the magnitudes of the orbits of five principal planets, rather derided by Prof. Draper in his “Conflict.” Many are the theories of the ancients that have been avenged by modern discovery. For the rest, we must bide our time.
[349] “Magia Naturalis,” Lugduni, 1569.
[350] Athanasis Kircher: “Magnes sive de arte magnetici, opus tripartitum.” Coloniæ, 1654.
[351] Lib. iii., p. 643.
[352] “Notes from a New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam,” by de la Loubère, French Ambassador to Siam in the years 1687-8. Edition of 1692.