When Francis Bacon – a key figure of the Scientific Revolution in Britain – travelled France as an adolescent, he was puzzled by a number of strange experiences. As mentioned in my video on Bacon’s views on “natural magic”, one such experience involved his dream which seemed to predict the unexpected death of his father ... Read more The post Warts and All: Francis Bacon’s Account of a Cure by “Sympathetic Magic” first appeared on Forbidden Histories.| Forbidden Histories
January 2019: In his 214th consecutive and final ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer reflects on what science brings to the human project.| Michael Shermer