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• Introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  
• Covers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemy.
  
• Represents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative.
  
• Presents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of...

• Introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  
• Covers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemy.
  
• Represents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative.
  
• Presents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of...

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women accused of witchcraft in Germany, had witnessed firsthand the twisted logic and brutal torture used by judges and inquisitors. Combined, these harsh prosecutorial measures led inevitably not only to a confession but to denunciations of supposed accomplices, spreading the circle of torture and execution...

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women accused of witchcraft in Germany, had witnessed firsthand the twisted logic and brutal torture used by judges and inquisitors. Combined, these harsh prosecutorial measures led inevitably not only to a confession but to denunciations of supposed accomplices, spreading the circle of torture and execution...