
HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Agrippa's Uncertainty of the Sciences
Agrippa was devoted to the occult sciences of magic, alchemy and astrology. He wrote a favorable commentary on one of the most ambitious theories of scientific method produced in the mediaeval era - ramon lol. But that's hardly a radical sceptical position. In his revised 15 33 edition of the treatise on occult philosophy, he advises readers that they should neither read nor understand nor remember the earlier version of the is for it is harmful.
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