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Titel:Occult Sciences, Volume 2
The Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies and Apparent Miracles
Von: Eusèbe Salverte, Edited and translated by Anthony Todd Thomson
Person: Salverte, Eusèbe
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Thomson, Anthony Todd
Hauptverfasser: Salverte, Eusèbe (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Thomson, Anthony Todd (HerausgeberIn, ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1846
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Medienzugang:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176460
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176460
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176460
Zusammenfassung:This examination of the connection between the belief in miracles and religious practices in ancient times was originally written by French politician and polymath Anne-Joseph-Eusèbe Baconnière de Salverte (1771–1839) and published in 1829. In 1846, it was translated into English by a Scottish physician and writer, Anthony Todd Thomson (1778–1849), and published in two volumes. Thomson explains that Salverte's work was an important study of miracles and the power of priests, and he had 'performed a beneficial service in throwing open the gates of ancient sanctuaries'. However, Thomson also states that he differed from Salverte over the idea of the miraculous, and that he had expunged or heavily edited any passages relating to Christianity, even changing 'miracles' in the original subtitle to 'apparent miracles'. Volume 2 discusses the role of drugs and poison in magic, as well as the influence of weather on miraculous events
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Umfang:1 online resource (402 pages)
ISBN:9781139176460
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139176460