2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British historian at the Warburg Institute whose scholarship transformed the study of Renaissance thought. Her Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964) demonstrated that Hermeticism was a driving force of the Scientific Revolution — a thesis still debated but enormously influential.
Scholarly work by Frances Yates published 1972. Examines the Rosicrucian manifestos of 1614-1616 and the milieu of the Palatinate court of Frederick V, arguing for a Rosicrucian-Hermetic current underlying the Scientific Revolution and early Freemasonry.