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The life and death of magic in the canonical history of philosophy

Brian P. Copenhaver: Magic in western culture: From antiquity to the enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xiv+600pp, $129.00 HB

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Fanger, C. The life and death of magic in the canonical history of philosophy. Metascience 26, 441–446 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0236-4

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