Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… grounds in the genuine nature of the medical cures reported’ (Fleming 411). These influential men were deeply impressed by Greatrakes’s personal charisma and apparent gift and spread the news in their numerous letters and … Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their Friends 1642-1684 (Oxford University Press, 1930; 1992, chapter five: Valentine Greatrakes). 7 . Charles Richard Weld, A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1848), p. 72, 90–91. 8 . Scepticism towards Greatrakes was expressed by David Lloyd in Wonders no miracles, or, …
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