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5066867Science and Specters at Salemhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/science-and-specters-at-salem-9781040118511/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4607250/image.jpg?v=63861849143123000011281128MXNTaylor & FrancisInStock/Ebooks/<p>Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers. <em>Science and Specters at Salem</em> turns instead to the intellectual background of the judges to understand why they accepted controversial types of evidence.</p><p>The role of judges in a witch trial was central. Goldish argues that in Salem the judges acceptance of questionable touch tests and spectral evidence was a result of their intellectual commitments. Several of the Salem judges were highly educated, and some of them were adherents of a particular philosophical school in England led by Henry More and Joseph Glanvill which Goldish calls "the anti-Sadducees." He demonstrates how the ideas of these leading thinkers, friends of Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton, could have led to the deaths of twenty accused witches in Salem.</p><p>This book will interest students and scholars of witch trials, American colonial history, Atlantic history, legal history and early modern Europe, as well as lay readers wanting a better understanding of Salem.</p>...4793485Science and Specters at Salem11281128https://www.gandhi.com.mx/science-and-specters-at-salem-9781040118511/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4607250/image.jpg?v=638618491431230000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781040118511_W3siaWQiOiI3MGYxMThjZS0wZDBjLTQ0Y2YtOTJjNC01ZmJkYTMwZDE1ODAiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjEwOTksImRpc2NvdW50IjowLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEwOTksImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTAxLTE2VDExOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781040118511_<p>Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers. <em>Science and Specters at Salem</em> turns instead to the intellectual background of the judges to understand why they accepted controversial types of evidence.</p><p>The role of judges in a witch trial was central. Goldish argues that in Salem the judges acceptance of questionable touch tests and spectral evidence was a result of their intellectual commitments. Several of the Salem judges were highly educated, and some of them were adherents of a particular philosophical school in England led by Henry More and Joseph Glanvill which Goldish calls "the anti-Sadducees." He demonstrates how the ideas of these leading thinkers, friends of Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton, could have led to the deaths of twenty accused witches in Salem.</p><p>This book will interest students and scholars of witch trials, American colonial history, Atlantic history, legal history and early modern Europe, as well as lay readers wanting a better understanding of Salem.</p>...9781040118511_Taylor & Francislibro_electonico_9781040118511_9781040118511Matt GoldishInglésMéxico2024-08-27T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/taylorandfrancis-epub-2e8e5b21-66a8-410f-a063-868156d960e5.epub2024-08-27T00:00:00+00:00Taylor & Francis