Decline of Magic - Hunter Michael
Decline of Magic - Hunter Michael A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial TimesIn early…
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Decline of Magic - Hunter Michael
A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial TimesIn early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted.
But is this justified?Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other
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