John Webster, the Royal Society and The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677)

IF 0.4 3区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science Pub Date : 2017-03-20 DOI:10.1098/RSNR.2016.0022

Michael Hunter

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Abstract

This paper publishes for the first time the dedication to the Royal Society that John Webster wrote for his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677), but which failed to appear in the published work. It also investigates the circumstances in which the book received the Royal Society's imprimatur, in the light of the Society's ambivalent attitude towards witchcraft and related phenomena in its early years. The paper concludes that the role of Sir Jonas Moore as Vice-President in licensing the book was highly irregular, evidently reflecting the troubled state of the Society in the mid to late 1670s.

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约翰·韦伯斯特，《皇家学会与假想巫术的展示》(1677年)

这篇论文首次发表了约翰·韦伯斯特为他的《假想巫术的展示》(1677年)所写的献给皇家学会的献词，但这篇献词没有出现在出版的作品中。它还调查了这本书获得皇家学会认可的情况，鉴于该学会早年对巫术和相关现象的矛盾态度。论文的结论是，乔纳斯·摩尔爵士(Sir Jonas Moore)在授权这本书时担任副主席的角色极不规范，这显然反映了17世纪70年代中后期协会的困境。

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Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 综合性期刊-科学史与科学哲学

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期刊介绍： Notes and Records is an international journal which publishes original research in the history of science, technology and medicine. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed research articles in all areas of the history of science, technology and medicine, Notes and Records welcomes other forms of contribution including: research notes elucidating recent archival discoveries (in the collections of the Royal Society and elsewhere); news of research projects and online and other resources of interest to historians; essay reviews, on material relating primarily to the history of the Royal Society; and recollections or autobiographical accounts written by Fellows and others recording important moments in science from the recent past.