Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3

AUGURELLO.--CORNELIUS AGRIPPA.--PARACELSUS.--GEORGE AGRICOLA.--DENYS ZACHAIRE.--DR. DEE AND EDWARD KELLY.--THE COSMOPOLITE.--SENDIVOGIUS.--THE ROSICRUCIANS.--MICHAEL MAYER.--ROB...

The wonderful influence of imagination in the cure of diseases is well known. A motion of the hand, or a glance of the eye, will throw a weak and credulous patient into a fit; a...

PRETENDED ANTIQUITY OF THE ART.--GEBER.--ALFARABI.--AVICENNA.--ALBERTUS MAGNUS.--THOMAS AQUINAS.--ARTEPHIUS.--ALAIN DE LISLE.--ARNOLD DE VILLENEUVE.--PIETRO D'APONE.--RAYMOND LU...

In accordance with the plan laid down in the introduction to this volume, we proceed to the consideration of the follies into which men have been led by their eager desire to pi...

Dissatisfaction with his lot seems to be the characteristic of man in all ages and climates. So far, however, from being an evil, as at first might be supposed, it has been the...

"Mercury (loquitur).--The mischief a secret any of them know, above the consuming of coals and drawing of usquebaugh! Howsoever they may pretend, under the specious names of Geb...

and Seventeenth Centuries.--Augurello.--Cornelius Agrippa.--Paracelsus.--George Agricola.--Denys Zachaire.--Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly.--The Cosmopolite.--Sendivogius.--The Rosicr...

Fifteenth Century.--Pretended Antiquity of the Art.--Geber.--Alfarabi.--Avicenna.--Albertus Magnus.--Thomas Aquinas.--Artephius.--Alain de Lisle.--Arnold de Villeneuve.--Pietro...