Charles Mackay, LL. D
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- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on De Constantia: “Many learned men, including Pompeius de Angelis and the celebrated Lipsius of Leyden, the author of the treatise "De Constantia," were passionately fond of tulips.”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on Lives of the Necromancers: “Lenglet, Histoire de la Philosophie Hermetique. See also Godwin's Lives of the Necromancers.”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on Le Roman de la Rose: “Among the works written by Nicholas Flamel on the subject of alchymy is The Philosophic Summary, a poem, reprinted in 1735, as an appendix to the third volume of the Roman de la Rose.”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum: “Louvain, in which city he wrote his famous work on the Vanity and Nothingness of Human Knowledge. He also wrote to please his royal mistress, a treatise upon the Superiority of the Female Sex, which he dedicated to her in token of his gratitude”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on Summum Bonum: “This book was published at Frankfort, and was entitled Summum Bonum, quod est Magiae, Cabalae, Alchimiae, Fratrum, Roseae-Crucis verorum, et adversus Mersenium Calumniatorem.”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on Aurora: “In the year 1612, after a meditation of four years, he published his first work, entitled Aurora, or the Rising of the Sun; embodying the ridiculous notions of Paracelsus”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on The Rape of the Lock: “From the same source Pope drew the airy tenants of Belinda's dressing-room, in his charming Rape of the Lock”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on Miscellanies: “A satirical account of this folly is given in Swift's Miscellanies, vol. iii., entitled A true and faithful Narrative of what passed in London on a Rumour of the Day of Judgment.”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on The Life of Merlin: “In a Life of Merlin, with his Prophecies and Predictions interpreted and made good by our English Annals, by Thomas Heywood, published in the reign of Charles I., we find several of these pretended prophecies.”
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds on Grafton's Chronicle: “A very graphic and amusing account of this pretended prophet is given by Grafton, in his Chronicles of England.”
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