Sources from Episode 160

  1. “'Sorceror' Hew Draper's Tower of London Graffiti: A Black Art Indeed,” The Guardian, April 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/apr/12/hew-draper-tower-of-london-graffiti.

  2. D.L. Ashliman, “Faust Legends,” Faust Legends, www.pitt.edu/~dash/faust.html.

  3. Frank L. Borchardt, “The Magus as Renaissance Man,” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1990, pp. 57–76.

  4. Titus Burckhardt and William Stoddart, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (Fons Vitae, 2006).

  5. Richard Conniff, “Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudoscience We All Thought It Was,” Smithsonian.com, February 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alchemy-may-not-been-pseudoscience-we-thought-it-was-180949430.

  6. Valerie I.J. Flint, The Rise of Magic: in Early Medieval Europe (Clarendon Press, 1991).

  7. “Johann Georg Faust Biography,” Magick Books Library, darkbooks.org/articles/Johann-Georg-Faust.html.

  8. Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

  9. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (New York: New American Library, 1969).

  10. Melanie Christina Mohr, “Goethe and Zoroastrianism: The Eternal Battle between Good and Evil,” Translated by Charlotte Collins, Qantara.de, 2018, en.qantara.de/content/goethe-and-zoroastrianism-the-eternal-battle-between-good-and-evil.

  11. Leo Ruickbie, Faustus: the Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (History, 2009).

  12. “How One Man's Love of Urine Led to the Discovery of Phosphorus,” Gizmodo, May 2014, gizmodo.com/how-one-man-s-love-of-urine-led-to-the-discovery-of-pho-1582537526.

  13. Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science (Columbia Univ. Press, 1970).