Michael Hunter (1) (1949–)
Autor de Boyle: Between God and Science
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Sobre El Autor
Michael Hunter, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of numerous books, including Boyle: Between God and Science (2009); Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91) (2015) and he is the principal editor of mostrar más Boyle's Works and Correspondence (1999-2001). He has also edited Printed Images in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Interpretation (2010). Jim Bennett is Keeper Emeritus of the Science Museum, London, and former Director of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. He is a leading expert on scientific instruments of the period. mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Michael Hunter
The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A new edition (2001) 16 copias
The Royal Society and Its Fellows, 1660-1700: The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution (British Society for… (1982) 11 copias
Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe (1998) 8 copias
Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain (1995) 5 copias
The image of restoration science : the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) (2016) 4 copias
Unpublished Material Relating to Robert Boyle's Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood (2005) — Editor — 2 copias
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- Nombre canónico
- Hunter, Michael
- Nombre legal
- Hunter, Michael Cyril William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949-04-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Sussex, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Hastings, Sussex, England, UK
- Educación
- Cambridge University (Jesus College)
Oxford University (Worcester College|junior research fellow) - Ocupaciones
- historian
historian of science
motorcycling enthusiast - Organizaciones
- Birkbeck College of the University of London
British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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- Obras
- 27
- Miembros
- 303
- Popularidad
- #77,624
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 70
We're first introduced to John Wagstaffe, who is often overlooked in favor of Reginald Scot, but Wagstaffe's "The Question of Witchcraft Debated" (1669) is much more critical of superstition. Describing witchcraft as "ridiculous lies and fancies", it was shocking to Wagsteffe that so many women died to "absurd error." But to many, to doubt the Devil's powers was akin to atheism. The term, the author explains, emerges in this period, as a personal attack, often against free thinkers, or used in religious debate. However, to be irreligious isn't the same as being atheist.
Hunter then examines the Deists, with Anthony Collins and John Toland at the forefront. Deism, in short, "is the belief in the existence of a supreme creator being, who does not intervene in the universe." But according to Hunter, Deists, in their eagerness to combine "priestcraft" and magic, never really debate witchcraft separately. The opinions of Robert Boyle and Francis Hutchinson are reviewed as well. The former, a brilliant scientist but private believer in the supernatural, and the latter an Anglican minister but fervently against the belief in witchcraft. It's not an easy line to trace.
Hunter also busts the myth that the Royal Society had everything to do with the decline of magic. The works of Joseph Glanvill, John Webster and John Goad are put up for examination, but the truth is the Royal Society avoided an opinion. You'd think that the Society would've studied the Poltergeist of Tedworth or the Scottish Second Sight (studied privately by Boyle), popular topics at this time. In the end, the demonstration of fraud of the Tedworth case would be a bigger nail in magic's coffin than any Deist or skeptic. True, Enlightenment thinkers had as much trouble defining magic as they had defining their own beliefs.… (más)