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 +"The basic difference between the attitude of the [[magician]] to the world and the attitude of the [[scientist]] to the world is that the former wants to draw the world into himself, whilst the scientist does just the opposite, he externalizes and impersonalizes the world ... Hence, may it not be supposed, when [[mechanics]] and [[mathematics]] took over from [[animism]] and [[magic]], it was this [[Internalization |internalisation]], this intimate connection of the ''[[mens]]'' with the [[world]], which had to be avoided at all costs. And, hence, it may be suggested, through the necessity for this strong reaction, the mistake arose of allowing the [[problem of mind]] to fall so completely out of step and so far behind the problem of matter in the [[external world]] and how it works ... This bad start of the problem of knowledge has never quite been made up."--''[[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]] '' (1964) by Frances Yates
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-'''Dame Frances Amelia Yates''' [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] (November 28, 1899 – September 29, 1981) was a noted [[British historian]]. She taught at the [[Warburg Institute]] of the [[University of London]] for many years.+'''Frances Yates''' (1899 – 1981) was a [[British historian]] who wrote extensively on the [[Western esotericism]]. She is remembered for such boosk as ''[[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]]'' (1964), ''[[The Art of Memory]]'' (1966), and ''[[The Rosicrucian Enlightenment]]'' (1972).
-She wrote extensively on the [[occult]] or [[Platonism in the Renaissance|neoplatonist philosophies of the Renaissance]]. Her books ''[[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]]'' (1964), ''[[The Art of Memory]]'' (1966), and ''The Rosicrucian Enlightenment'' (1971) are major works. She ''dealt with traditions whose remoteness she could not eliminate, even while she made them more understandable''. 
==Works== ==Works==
-* ''John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England'' (1934)+* ''[[John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England]]'' (1934)
-* ''A study of Love's labour's lost'' <!-- Possessive and caps as in original, according to OCLC --> (1936)+* ''[[A study of Love's labour's lost]]'' <!-- Possessive and caps as in original, according to OCLC --> (1936)
-* ''The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century'' (1947)+* ''[[The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century]]'' (1947)
-* ''The [[Valois Tapestries]]'' (1959)+* ''[[The Valois Tapestries]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]]'' (1964) ISBN 9780226950075 * ''[[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]]'' (1964) ISBN 9780226950075
* ''[[The Art of Memory]]'' (1966) ISBN 9780226950013 * ''[[The Art of Memory]]'' (1966) ISBN 9780226950013
* ''[[Theatre of the World]]'' (1969) * ''[[Theatre of the World]]'' (1969)
-* ''The Rosicrucian Enlightenment'' (1972)+* ''[[The Rosicrucian Enlightenment]]'' (1972)
-* ''Astraea : The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century'' (1975)+* ''[[Astraea : The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century]]'' (1975)
-* ''Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach'' (1975)+* ''[[Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach]]'' (1975)
-* ''The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age'' (1979)+* ''[[The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age]]'' (1979)
-* ''Lull and Bruno'' (1982) Collected Essays I+* ''[[Lull and Bruno]]'' (1982) Collected Essays I
-* ''Renaissance and Reform : The Italian Contribution'' (1983) Collected Essays II+* ''[[Renaissance and Reform : The Italian Contribution]]'' (1983) Collected Essays II
-* ''Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance'' (1984) Collected Essays III+* ''[[Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance]]'' (1984) Collected Essays III
==See also== ==See also==
*[[Review of Guy Hamel of Frances Yates's Theatre of the World]] *[[Review of Guy Hamel of Frances Yates's Theatre of the World]]
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S. L. Lyons]], [[F. Yates]], [[Fiona MacCarthy]], [[Florian theory of Shakespeare authorship]], [[Frances Donaldson]], [[Francesco Giorgi]], [[Francis Bacon]], [[Frederick V of the Palatinate]], [[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]], [[Giordano Bruno]], [[Giorgio Agamben]], [[Giovanni Battista Ciotti]], [[Giulio Camillo]], [[Hallie Rubenhold]], [[Hans Eworth]], [[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]], [[Heinrich Khunrath]], [[Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland]], [[Hermes Trismegistus]], [[Hermeticism (poetry)]], [[Hermeticism]], [[History of science and technology]], [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], [[Ian Kershaw]], [[Invisible College]], [[Isaac Casaubon]], [[Italian philosophy]], [[J. W. Burrow]], [[Jerry White (historian)]], [[Joanna Bourke]], [[Johannes Valentinus Andreae]], [[John Bossy]], [[John C. G. 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Warren]], [[Walter Montagu]], [[Warburg Institute]], [[Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate]], [[Western esotericism]], [[William Dalrymple (historian)]], [[Wolfson History Prize]], [[Women in the art history field]], [[Writings of Cicero]]
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"The basic difference between the attitude of the magician to the world and the attitude of the scientist to the world is that the former wants to draw the world into himself, whilst the scientist does just the opposite, he externalizes and impersonalizes the world ... Hence, may it not be supposed, when mechanics and mathematics took over from animism and magic, it was this internalisation, this intimate connection of the mens with the world, which had to be avoided at all costs. And, hence, it may be suggested, through the necessity for this strong reaction, the mistake arose of allowing the problem of mind to fall so completely out of step and so far behind the problem of matter in the external world and how it works ... This bad start of the problem of knowledge has never quite been made up."--Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964) by Frances Yates

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Frances Yates (1899 – 1981) was a British historian who wrote extensively on the Western esotericism. She is remembered for such boosk as Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964), The Art of Memory (1966), and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972).

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Academic study of Western esotericism, Académie de Poésie et de Musique, Accademia della Crusca, Accession Day tilt, Adam Tooze, Alan Bullock, Alexander Dicsone, Alexander Watson (historian), Alexandra Walsham, Alistair Horne, Amanda Vickery, Andreas Libavius, Andrew Roberts (historian), Antonia Fraser, Antony Beevor, Art of memory, Astraea, Augustine of Hippo, Ballet Comique de la Reine, Barbara Harvey, Barry Cunliffe, Birkenhead High School Academy, Boiled leather, British Constantine, Cambridge Platonists, Canonbury Tower, Catherine de' Medici, Catherine de' Medici's court festivals, Catherine de' Medici's patronage of the arts, Catherine Merridale, Chris Wickham, Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Christian Kabbalah, Christopher Clark, Christopher de Hamel, Christopher Duggan, Cicero, Claygate, Colin Matthew, Crollalanza theory of Shakespeare authorship, Cyprian Broodbank, David Reynolds (historian), De umbris idearum, Denis Mack Smith, Denis Saurat, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Dominic Lieven, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Enochian, Evelyn Welch, F. S. L. Lyons, F. Yates, Fiona MacCarthy, Florian theory of Shakespeare authorship, Frances Donaldson, Francesco Giorgi, Francis Bacon, Frederick V of the Palatinate, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Giordano Bruno, Giorgio Agamben, Giovanni Battista Ciotti, Giulio Camillo, Hallie Rubenhold, Hans Eworth, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Heinrich Khunrath, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermeticism (poetry), Hermeticism, History of science and technology, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Ian Kershaw, Invisible College, Isaac Casaubon, Italian philosophy, J. W. Burrow, Jerry White (historian), Joanna Bourke, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, John Bossy, John C. G. Röhl, John Darwin (historian), John Dee, John Elliott (historian), John Florio, John Grigg (writer), John Luttrell (soldier), John McManners, John Webster (minister), John Wilkins, Jonathan Israel, Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption, Julian T. Jackson, Keith Thomas (historian), Kenneth Rose, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Life Is a Dream (1986 film), Linda Colley, List of non-fiction writers, Love's Labour's Lost, Luciano Floridi, Ludibrium, Margaret M. McGowan, Mark Mazower, Marsilio Ficino, Martin Gilbert, Mary Beard (classicist), Mary Fulbrook, Mary Soames, Maurice Keen, Melencolia I, Memoria, Method of loci, Michael Howard (historian), Michelangelo Florio, Monas Hieroglyphica, Moses Finley, Nicholas Thomas, Nikolaus Pevsner, Nikolaus Wachsmann, Norman Stone, Olwen Hufton, Orality, Orlando Figes, Paolo Sarpi, Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Paul Kennedy, Persecution of philosophers, Personal life of Cicero, Peter Marshall (historian), Peter of Ravenna, Platonism in the Renaissance, Political career of Cicero, Portraiture of Elizabeth I, Portsmouth, Proposals for an English Academy, Quentin Skinner, R. J. W. Evans, Ramism, Ramon Llull, Rees Davies, Renaissance humanism, Renaissance magic, Richard A. Fletcher, Richard Cobb, Richard Davenport-Hines, Richard J. Evans, Richard Overy, Richard Vinen, Robert Bartlett (historian), Robert Fludd, Robert Gildea, Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Polidori, Robert Skidelsky, Robin Lane Fox, Rose Cross, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Rosemary Hill, Rosicrucianism, Roy Porter, Roy Strong, Ruth Harris (historian), Santi Paladino, Simon Critchley, Simon Schama, Simonides of Ceos, Southsea, Susan Brigden, Susie Harries, Taja Kramberger, The Art of Memory, The Layer Monument, The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon, The School of Night, The Solitudes (novel), The Templar Revelation, Theodore Zeldin, Titus Andronicus, University of London Worldwide, Valois Tapestries, W. L. Warren, Walter Montagu, Warburg Institute, Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate, Western esotericism, William Dalrymple (historian), Wolfson History Prize, Women in the art history field, Writings of Cicero





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