The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A new edition

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Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Robert Boyle......Page 11 Robert Kirk......Page 21 Aubrey, Pepys, Lhuyd and the aftermath......Page 30 Postscript and conclusion: second sight debunked......Page 37 Appendix: John Evelyn’s note on the Mason Word......Page 41 Introductory Notes on the Texts: General......Page 42 1: Robert Boyle’s notes on his interview with Lord Tarbat, 3 October 1678......Page 60 2: ‘A Collection of Highland Rites and Customs’......Page 63 3: Robert Kirk’s The Secret Commonwealth......Page 86 ‘A Short Treatise of the Scotish-Irish Charms and Spells’......Page 116 4: James Garden’s letters to John Aubrey concerning the Druid's Temples......Page 127 5: Samuel Pepys’s collection of letters on second sight......Page 169 6: John Fraser’s "Deuteroskopia"......Page 196 7: Edward Lhuyd’s and Robert Wodrow’s questionnaires and the responses of John Fraser and John MacLean......Page 214 Textual Notes......Page 226 Appendix: Quotations of biblical passages cited in the texts above......Page 238 Bibliography......Page 242 Glossary......Page 247 Index......Page 250