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The journalist and author W. H. Davenport Adams (1828 91)
established a reputation for himself as a popular science writer,
translator and lexicographer. He also wrote several children's
books. In this 1889 work, Adams gives a general introduction to
alchemy in Europe and traces the development of magic and alchemy
in England from the fourteenth century onwards. Initially the
disciplines were persecuted by the Church and met with 'the
prejudice of the vulgar', languishing throughout the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. In Book 1 Adams portrays the English
'magicians' Roger Bacon, whom he considers to have been ahead of
his contemporaries; John Dee and William Lilly, astrologists of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, respectively; and the English
Rosicrucians. Book 2 is a historical account of witchcraft in
England and Scotland, from the middle ages to the witch trials of
the seventeenth century, and includes a chapter on witchcraft in
literature.
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