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Gabriel Naudé

    February 2, 1600 – July 10, 1653

    Gabriel Naudé was a French librarian and scholar whose prolific writings spanned diverse subjects from politics and history to religion and the supernatural. His literary legacy includes works that anticipated modern critical thought, notably as an early theorist of library science whose visions he could implement in practice. Naudé is recognized as a precursor to Enlightenment thinkers, influencing subsequent intellectual development with his broad scholarship.

    Anleitung zur Einrichtung einer Bibliothek
    Considérations politiques sur les coups d'état
    The History of Magick: By Way of Apology, for All the Wise Men Who Have Unjustly Been Reputed Magicians, From the Creation, to the Present Ag
    News From France; or, A Description of the Library of Cardinal Mazarin, Preceded by the Surrender