ARS NOTORIA

ARS NOTORIA,is a manner of acquiring Sciences by Infusion, without any other Application than a little Fasting, and making a few Ceremonies. See FASTING, &c. They who make Profession of this Art, affirm that it was by means hereof that Solomon, in one Night’s Time, acquired all his Knowledge.—Delrio shows it to be a criminal Curiosity, and founded on a secret Compact with the Devil. Disquisition Mag. p. 11. It was solemnly condemned by the Sorbonne, in 1320. St. Anselm’s Art, is a superstitious Manner of curing Wounds, by barely touching the Linen wherewith those Wounds had been covered. See WOUND and SYMPATHY. Delrio, in his Disquisitiones Magicae, observes that some Italian Soldiers, who practiced this Art, attributed the Invention thereof to St. Anselm; but assures us withal, that it was really invented by Anselm of Parma, a celebrated Magician. St. Paul’s Art, is a Branch of the Ars Notoria, so called as being supposed to have been taught by St. Paul, after his being taken up into the third Heaven.