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: The book was a major influence on such later magical thinkers as Giordano Bruno and John Dee, but was ill-understood after the decline of the Occult Renaissance concomitant with the Scientific Revolution.

The book ( whose early draft, quite different from the final form, circulated in manuscript long before it was published ) is often cited in discussions of Albrecht Dürer's famous engraving Melencolia I ( 1514 ).

( Note that Philosophy of Natural Magic: Complete Work on Natural Magic, White & Black Magic, 1569, ISBN 1-56459-160-3, is simply book 1 of De occulta philosophia libri tres.