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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

by Charles Mackay

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Author
Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
Credits
Jonathan Ingram, Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
AZ: General Works: History of scholarship and learning, The humanities
Subject
Common fallacies
Category
Text
eBook-No.
24518
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
Release Date
February 5, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds.
  2. 2.CONTENTS. — MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.LIST OF ENGRAVINGS IN VOL. I.
  5. 5.Preface.
  6. 6.MONEY MANIA.—THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME.
  7. 7.THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE. — List of Bubbles.
  8. 8.THE TULIPOMANIA.
  9. 9.THE ALCHYMISTS; OR Searchers for the Philosopher’s Stone and the Water of Life. — Geber. — Alfarabi. — Avicenna. — Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas. — Artephius. — Alain de Lisle. — Arnold de Villeneuve. — Pietro d’Apone. — Raymond Lulli. — Roger Bacon. — Pope John XXII. — Jean de Meung. — Nicholas Flamel. — George Ripley. — Basil Valentine. — Bernard of Treves. — Trithemius. — The Marechal de Rays. — Jacques Cœur. — Inferior Adepts of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. — PROGRESS OF THE INFATUATION DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.—PRESENT STATE OF THE SCIENCE. — Augurello. — Cornelius Agrippa. — Paracelsus. — George Agricola. — Denis Zachaire. — Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly. — The Cosmopolite. — Sendivogius. — The Rosicrucians. — Jacob Böhmen. — Mormius. — Borri. — Inferior Alchymists of the Seventeenth Century. — Jean Delisle. — Albert Aluys. — The Count de St. Germain. — Cagliostro. — Present State of Alchymy.
  10. 10.MODERN PROPHECIES.
  11. 11.FORTUNE-TELLING.
  12. 12.THE MAGNETISERS.
  13. 13.INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD.
  14. 14.Footnotes — MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds.
  15. 15.CONTENTS.
  16. 16.LIST OF ENGRAVINGS IN VOL. II.
  17. 17.THE CRUSADES.
  18. 18.THE WITCH MANIA.
  19. 19.THE SLOW POISONERS.
  20. 20.HAUNTED HOUSES.
  21. 21.POPULAR FOLLIES OF GREAT CITIES.
  22. 22.POPULAR ADMIRATION OF GREAT THIEVES.
  23. 23.DUELS AND ORDEALS.
  24. 24.RELICS.
  25. 25.Footnotes
  26. 26.INDEX.

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