Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… the Animal Magnetism, as Now Practised at Paris. Translated from the French. With an Historical Introduction (London: J. Johnson, 1785). Thought of as a demon or an angel, or an ‘ Apostle’ by the locals, he becomes for us one of the numinous …
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