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The decline of magic : Britain in the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 0300243588 9780300243581 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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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.

John Dee : interdisciplinary studies in English Renaissance thought
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ISBN: 9781402042461 9781402042454 1402042450 9048170842 9786610612666 1280612665 1402042469 Year: 2006 Volume: 193 Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer,

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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.

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