The Last Witch Craze: John Aubrey, the Royal Society and the Witches

by Tony McAleavy

The seventeenth-century man of letters John Aubrey is remembered, above all, for his great biographical work, Brief Lives. He also wrote pioneering works dealing with education, geology, languages, archaeology, history, place-name study and folklore. Aubrey was a Fellow of the Royal Society. Other early members of the Royal Society included Robert Boyle, the greatest scientist of his generation and Henry More, one of England's leading philosophers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445698420
• ISBN13: 9781445698427
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages