Frances Yates

The Warburg historian whose Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964) made the Renaissance unreadable in the old way: magic, memory and Hermeticism were not embarrassing margins to the scientific revolution but part of its motive force. Later scholarship has trimmed the thesis; nobody has put the margins back.

The named source under this pack. As with Scholem in ☉, a claim about a tradition's influence is a scholarly claim, and this room refuses to make one anonymously.