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Author Wilson, D. K. (Derek K.), author.

Title A magical world : superstition and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / Derek K. Wilson.

Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  509 WIL    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  509 WILSON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  509 WIL    DUE 01-09-19 Billed
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  201.65 WILSON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  201.65 WILSON    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  201.65 WILSON    Check Shelf
Edition First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description x, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-297) and index.
Contents Introduction: '42' -- New wine and old wineskins -- A magical world -- Re-evaluation -- Heavens above? -- Medicine men -- Seeing may be believing -- Confusion -- I think--so what? -- The religion of doctors -- Spreading the word -- Day star of the Enlightenment -- Avant le deluge.
Summary Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals a society filled with an ardent desire for knowledge and astounding discoveries and the fantastic discoveries that flowered from it. There was the discovery of the movement of blood around the body; the movement of the earth around the sun; the velocity of falling objects (and why those objects fell).
Subject Religion and science -- History.
Science -- Europe -- History.
Superstition -- Europe -- History.
Renaissance.
Enlightenment.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance.
SCIENCE / History.
Superstition -- History.
ISBN 9781681776453 (hardcover)
1681776456 (hardcover)
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