Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Image Anon., Valentine Greatrakes b. 1794. Résumé Commentators have at times overstated the reach and impact of scientific rationalism at the close of the seventeenth century , and in doing so have been … It is thus no wonder that Greatrakes’s actions were received enthusiastically by many prominent figures in church and state, who were eager to seek reconciliation and union in the early years of the Restoration. 14 ‘ [ S ] ickening … The sociologist Gustave Lebon, the leading scholar of the psychology of crowds, highlighted in 1895 the irrational states that pervade the actions of a manipulable crowd and alter the rational capacities of individuals. 15 The crowd, …
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