2.14.What Was the Impact of the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Movement on the Belief

2.14.What was the impact of the seventeenth-century scientific movement on the belief in the supernatural?

Thomas Jobe, 'The Devil in Restoration Science: The Glanvill-Webster Witchcraft Debate', Isis, 72 (1981), 242-56 examines one of the classic texts, which we have also used.

For the ; Brian Easlea, Witch-Hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy: An Introduction to the Debates of the Scientific Revolution (1980).

Alan MacFarlane, ‘Civility and the Decline of Magic’, in P. Burke et al (eds), Civil Histories (Oxford, 2000); online at

Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons (1997), pt II, ch. 19; postscript

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), ch. 22

Jonathan Barry, ‘Public Infidelity and Private Belief? The Discourse of Spirits in Enlightenment Bristol’, in O. Davies and W. de Blecourt (eds), Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe (2004)

Malcolm Gaskill, ‘The Displacement of providence: Policing and Prosecution in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England’, Continuity and Change, 11 (1996), 341-74

Charles Webster, From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern Science (1982), ch. 4

------, ‘Paracelsus, Paracelsianism, and the secularization of the worldview’, Science in Context, 15 (2002), 9-27.

Michael Hunter (ed.), The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in late seventeenth-century Scotland (2001)

Barbara Shapiro, Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth Century England (1983), ch. 6

Noel Brann, ‘The conflict between reason and magic in seventeenth-century England: a case study of the Vaughan-More debate’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 43 (1980)

S. Sharst, ‘Magic, Religion, Science and Secularisation’, in J. Neusner et al (eds), Religion, Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict (1989)

K. Hutchison, ‘Supernaturalism and the mechanical philosophy’, History of Science, 21 (1983)

P. Harrison, ‘Newtonian Science, miracles, and the Laws of Nature’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 56 (1995)

J. C. D. Clark, ‘Providence, predestination and progress: or, did the Enlightenment fail?’, Albion, 35 (2004)

Patrick Curry, ‘Revisions of science and magic’, History of Science, 23 (1985)

John Henry The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science (1997), chs. 4, 6

Richard H. Popkin, ‘ Prophecy and scepticism in the sixteenth and seventeenth century’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 4 (1996), 1-20.

Hanafi Zakiya, The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution (2000).

Ariel Glucklich, The End of Magic (1997)