New book mail yesterday, Anthony Grafton's work on #earlymodern magic and the age of Faust. In the current environment I'm also reminded of remarks in his Girolamo Cardano book referring to 16th-century astrologers as the economists of their day: 🙄 📗 📉 https://bookshop.org/p/books/magus-the-art-of-magic-from-faustus-to-agrippa-anthony-grafton/19721873