Giambattista della Porta Professions : Scholar Born : 1535 Died : February 4, 1615 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Giambattista della Porta Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur. Giambattista della Porta addiction miracle inspiration Similar Authors Abu Rayhan al-Biruni scholar Abdullah Yusuf Ali scholar Diana L. Eck scholar David W. Johnson scholar Darrell Bock scholar Ibn Majah scholar All Authors