Magus

Magus - The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton.

A highly detailed study of the evolution of magic in the 15th and 16th revealing how the accusation of the witchcraft trials rarely stuck to learned men. Grafton attempts to separate the sparse historical facts from the tangle of stories that surround the people’s lives explored in this book, examining the three-way relationship between religion, magic and science.