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Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, early 19th century
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) was a German occultist, magician, and alchemist. His work, La Philosophie Occulte (1727) is considered one of the most important texts in Western occultism. In Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818), young Victor Frankenstein reads the entire works of Cornelius Agrippa, hoping to access a "secret store of knowledge" about the natural world.
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
![A man (Agrippa) in profile to the right, and seated wearing a hat and robes.](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/frankenstein/assets/images/dg_OB10659_b01611_Lg.jpg)
Topic:
ChemistryCreator:
Robert Cooper