Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… when it had such rhetorical force […] Although certain scientific discoveries could be invoked to support a materialist philosophy, they were usually susceptible to less radical interpretations. And in the confrontation between skepticism … Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 13-14. Even in a period characterized by scientific progress and rationalistic philosophy, the occult was thus in great demand: miracles, 12 superstition and witchcraft were phenomena widely shared …
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