Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, alchemist, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. September 23, 1486 – February 28, 1535; died at 48. Alive at the same time as Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Wiki link