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A new history acts as a field guide to the fictional imps invoked by scientific thinkers

12.11.2020

Jimena Canales' Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science reviewed by Jan G. Michel in Science Magazine.

What role could imaginary creatures possibly play in the most rational, systematic, and discovery-oriented enterprise humanity has ever created? Did the Enlightenment not teach us to dispense with the supernatural and provide us with the power of reason to exorcise demons from modern science?
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