Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment - Hardcover

Monod, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300123582 ISBN 13: 9780300123586

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Newton, Boyle, Locke and other great 'rational' figures of the Enlightenment embraced the magical and occult to a surprising extent, while the popular audience for occult publications grew even when official disapproval was at its strongest. Surveying British occult thinking from 1650 to 1815, Monod brings out its distinctive openness to both learned and popular ideas, and shows how the occult was not discarded in favour of 'reason', but incorporated into new forms of learning.

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Review:

"[A] serious yet lively work, chockablock with facts, anecdotes, and original research."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post--Michael Dirda "The Washington Post "

"A definitive document of its material."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
--Publisher's Weekly

"A first-class study of the pursuit of the occult in England from the Restoration through 1815."--Library Journal

--Library Journal

..".[T]he book contains a wealth of information that adds to the ongoing scholarly conversations regarding the dynamics of the shifting fortunes of alchemy, astrology, and magic (both natural and ritual) in the early modern period."--Lawrence Principe, Chicago Journals-- (06/01/2015)

About the Author:

Paul Monod is A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History at Middlebury College. He lives in Weybridge, VT.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300123582
• ISBN 13: 9780300123586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412