Stories
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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
Once upon a time, we all had a genius.
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Race, religion and the Black Madonna
Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.
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Menstruation, magic and moon myths
Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.
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A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
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The analyst; or, a discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the object, principles, and inferences of the modern analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than religious mysteries and Points of Faith. By the author of The minute philosopher.
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The analyst; or, a discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the object, principles, and inferences of the modern analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than religious mysteries and Points of Faith. By the author of The minute philosopher.
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.Date: 1734- Books
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The analyst; or, a discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the object, Principles, and inferences of the modern analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than religious mysteries and Points of Faith. By the author of The minute philosopher.
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.Date: 1734- Books
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Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant. Containing Not only the Words, and their Explication; but their Etymologies from the Antient British, Teutonick, ... Dutch, Saxon, Danish, ... French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, &c. each in its proper Character. Also Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the Arts, Sciences, and Mysteries following. Together with Accents directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue, Viz. in Agriculture, ... and Trigonometry. Illustrated with near Five Hundred Cuts, for Giving a clearer Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases us'd in our antient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, either Religious or Civil, their Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and many other curious Matters, necessary to be understood, especially by the Readers of English Poetry. To which is added, A Collection of Proper Names of Persons and Places in Great-Britain, with their Etymologies and Explications. The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. Collected by several hands, the mathematical part by G. Gordon, the botanical by P. Miller. The whole revis'd and improv'd, with many thousand additions, by N. Bailey,
Bailey, N (Nathan), -1742.Date: M,DCC,XXX. [1730]- Books
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The credibility of mysteries in religion vindicated. In a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral church of Lichfield, on Sunday, July 21. 1728. By William Baker D. D. Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable George Earl of Cardigan. Publish'd at the Request of the Bailiffs and Aldermen of the City of Lichfield.
Baker, William, 1678 or 1679-1733.Date: 1729