Here are the areas of magic which the Italian scientist Giambattista della Porta at the dawn of Modern Science identified as ‘Natural Magic’. Sorcerers leading up to this time in Italy, especially one named Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, as printing presses were able to disseminate knowledge far and wide (even knowledge condemned by the Church), had sought to distinguish two kinds of magic arts, natural, involving learning by experimentation on natural objects, and ceremonial, involving invocation of spirits. Notice how the list of natural magic arts includes areas of knowledge which the Book of Enoch says were introduced by angels to humans sinfully at the dawn of civilisation. This became the basis of Modern Science.
Of the Causes of Wonderful Things
Of Changing Metals
Of Beautifying Women
Of Tempering Steel
Of Strange Glasses
Of the Generation of Animals
Of Counterfeiting Glorious Stones
Of Distillation
Of Cookery
Of Static Experiments
Of the Production of New Plants
Of the Wonders of the Load-Stone
Of Perfuming
Of Fishing, Fowling, Hunting, etc.
Of Pneumatic Experiments
Of Increasing Household-Stuff
Of Physical Experiments
Of Artificial Fires
Of Invisible Writing
Of the Chaos
