24 Aug 1668 Jahr - Joseph Glanvill

Beschreibung:

Authors "A Blow at Modern Sadducism in some Philosophical Considerations about Witchcraft".

A member of the Royal Society, he wrote "The Vanity of Dogmatizing" (1661), which attacked scholasticism and religious persecution. It was a plea for religious toleration, the scientific method, and freedom of thought. A proponent of limited skepticism, the re-Order.

At the same time, in "A Blow" he is in favor of the witch hunt.