Agrippa Instructing Pupils, 16th Century
Agrippa instructing his pupils in mathematics from the frontispiece of his Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue, 1553. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (September 14, 1486 - February 18, 1535) was a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer and alchemist. During his wandering life in Germany, France and Italy he worked as a theologian, physician, legal expert and soldier. After Agrippa's death in 1535, rumors circulated about him summoning demons and that on his deathbed he released a black dog which had been his familiar
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