Science and Justice The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials

• मुख्य लेखक: Fox, Sanford J. (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• विषय: History of the Americas
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1968. Far from being an isolated outburst of community insanity or hysteria, the Massachusetts witchcraft trials were an accurate reflection of the scientific ethos of the seventeenth century. Witches were seldom hanged without supporting medical evidence. Professor Fox clari...