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A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain. Early modern Britain embraced many forms of the supernatural and took the absolute existence of a spiritual world for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century these certainties were swept away. In this ground-breaking account, Michael Hunter argues that the real pioneers in skepticism about magic were humanists and free-thinkers. However, their critical attitude toward religion meant that their views were often dismissed. Hunter reveals just how divided opinion remained and how magic was never properly tested in the Enlightenment.
Skepticism --- Occultism --- Enlightenment --- Science and magic --- Faith and reason --- History --- Faith and logic --- Logic and faith --- Reason --- Reason and faith --- Reason and religion --- Religion and reason --- Magic and science --- Magic --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Religious aspects --- History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799
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"The career of John Dee has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and "angel magic"), seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and his collaborators and colleagues"--Dust jacket.
History of philosophy --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- filosofie --- wiskunde --- Historical linguistics --- Mathematics --- geschiedenis --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- taalfamilies --- Philosophy --- Dee, John --- Philosophy of nature --- Science, Renaissance --- Philosophie de la nature --- Sciences de la Renaissance --- History --- Histoire --- Dee, John, --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVSCIEN SPRINGER-B --- Science --- 16th century --- Science and magic --- Occultism --- England --- Science and magic. --- Alchemy --- Religion. --- Philosophy. --- Mathematics. --- History. --- Historical linguistics. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Philosophy, general. --- History of Philosophy. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Historical Linguistics. --- History of Science. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Math --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Magic and science --- Magic --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Metals, Transmutation of --- Philosophers' egg --- Philosophers' stone --- Stone, Philosophers' --- Transmutation of metals --- Chemistry --- I. D. --- J. D. --- Dee, Johannes, --- Dee, --- D., I., --- D., J., --- Natural sciences --- Science - History - 16th century. --- Occultism - England - History - 16th century. --- Alchemy - History - 16th century. --- Philosophy—History. --- Science—History.
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