Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Volume I

by Charles MacKay

Overview

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500409777
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/06/2014
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.37(d)

Table of Contents

	Editor's Preface	7
	The Mississippi Scheme	9
	The South Sea Bubble	56
	List of Bubbles	70
	The Tulipomania	99
	The Alchymists	109
	Geber	113
	ALfarabi	114
	Avicenna	116
	Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquina	117
	Artephius	120
	Alain de Lisle	121
	Arnold de Villeneuve	121
	Pietro d'Apone	123
	Raymond Lulli	124
	Roger Bacon	130
	Pope John XXII	131
	Jean de Meung	132
	Nicholas Flamel	134
	George Ripley	140
	Basil Valentine	142
	Bernard of Treves	142
	Trithemius	147
	The Marechal de Rays	150
	Jacques Coeur	158
	Inferior Adepts of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	161
	Progress of the Infatuation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries--Present State of the Science	164
	Augurello	165
	Cornelius Agrippa	165
	Paracelsus	171
	George Agricola	174
	Denis Zachaire	175
	Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly	182
	The Cosmopolite	195
	Sendivogius	198
	The Rosicrucians	200
	Jacob Bohmen	213
	Mormius	215
	Borri	216
	Inferior Alchymists of the Seventeenth Century	223
	Jean Delisle	228
	Albert Aluys	239
	The Count de St. Germain	242
	Cagliostro	249
	Present State of Alchymy	267
	Modern Prophecies	272
	Fortune-Telling	297
	The Magnetisers	322