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- Lynn Thorndike, in a chapter "The Circle of Melanchthon" in his multi-volume History of Magic and Experimental Science. It appears as Chapter XVII in what Google Books has as Part 9, but that is from a paperback edition not respecting the original structure of 8 volumes.