A skeptical satire of the sad state of science by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535), a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, and alchemist. The book was to have a significant impact on such thinkers and writers as Montaigne, René Descartes, and Goethe. This edition is quite scarce - WorldCat lists only seven copies, and just three in the United States.