Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
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Original author: Charles Mackay
"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3" by Charles Mackay is a volume first published in 1841. This final volume explores humanity's philosophical delusions, focusing on the misguided pursuits of alchemists seeking to transform base metals into gold. Mackay examines how practitioners and their noble sponsors fell prey to elaborate deceptions and self-delusion. The volume also investigates fortune-telling and magnetisers who claimed to cure diseases through imagination, revealing the persistent human susceptibility to pseudoscientific beliefs and supernatural explanations across centuries.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3, by Charles Mackay. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #884.
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15 Chapters
- 1.Book III: The Magnetisers759 words
- 2.Book I: The Alchymists186 words
- 3.Part I: History of Alchymy From the Earliest Periods to the Fifteenth Century (1)8,479 words
- 4.Part I: History of Alchymy From the Earliest Periods to the Fifteenth Century (2)8,956 words
- 5.Part I: History of Alchymy From the Earliest Periods to the Fifteenth Century (3)2,141 words
- 6.Part II: Progress of the Infatuation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1)8,639 words
- 7.Part II: Progress of the Infatuation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2)8,924 words
- 8.Part II: Progress of the Infatuation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (3)8,921 words
- 9.Part II: Progress of the Infatuation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (4)8,950 words
- 10.Part II: Progress of the Infatuation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (5)4,621 words
- 11.Book II: Fortune Telling8,335 words
- 12.Book III: The Magnetisers (1)8,947 words
- 13.Book III: The Magnetisers (2)8,865 words
- 14.Book III: The Magnetisers (3)8,714 words
- 15.Book III: The Magnetisers (4)2,948 words