Chapter 18 – The Logic of 18th-Century Scientific Thinking
Unsurprisingly, the scholars of the Enlightenment era were keen to uncover the mechanisms by which folkloric superstition might exert a lethal impact on both the mind and the physical body. Far from being ignorant or dogmatically constrained, they approached the phenomenon with a progressive spirit and sought rational explanations. Michael Ranff, for example, in De […]
