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A magical world : superstition and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

A magical world : superstition and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Book 2018

Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals a society filled with an ardent desire for knowledge and astounding discoveries and the fantastic discoveries that flowered from it. There was the discovery of the movement of blood around the body; the movement of the earth around the sun; the velocity of falling objects (and why those objects fell).