Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
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"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3" by Charles Mackay is a volume first published in 1841. This final volume explores humanity's philosophical delusions, focusing on the misguided pursuits of alchemists seeking to transform base metals into gold. Mackay examines how practitioners and their noble sponsors fell prey to elaborate deceptions and self-delusion. The volume also investigates fortune-telling and magnetisers who claimed to cure diseases through imagination, revealing the persistent human
susceptibility to pseudoscientific beliefs and supernatural explanations across centuries. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 |
|---|---|
| Title | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds |
| Credits | Produced by An Anonymous Project Gutenberg Volunteer and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 63.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | AZ: General Works: History of scholarship and learning, The humanities |
| Subject | Social psychology |
| Subject | Swindlers and swindling |
| Subject | Impostors and imposture |
| Subject | Alchemy |
| Subject | Delusions |
| Subject | Occultism -- Early works to 1900 |
| Subject | Investments -- Psychological aspects |
| Subject | Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects |
| Subject | Hallucinations and illusions |
| Subject | Common fallacies |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 884 |
| Release Date | Apr 1, 1997 |
| Last Update | Feb 5, 2013 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1005 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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