Month: February 2020

New: Science, ‘Atheism’ and Ridicule – Prof. Michael Hunter on the Hidden History of the Decline of Magic in Early Modern British Science

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  Nobody knows more about Robert Boyle, a founder of modern experimental science and the Royal Society, than Michael Hunter. Now an Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, Hunter is the author of various essays and books including the award-winning monograph, Boyle: Between God and Science (2009). Apart from producing a catalogue of Boyle’s vast … Read more

An Occult Nobel Laureate: New Book on French Physiologist and Psychical Researcher Charles Richet

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There’s certainly no shortage of books on the modern occult produced by academic historians, English literature scholars and other humanities researchers. However, it’s no secret that I feel that much of this literature is characterized by a sadly lax and superficial engagement with primary sources, and methodological aspects of empirical approaches to alleged parapsychological phenomena … Read more