Joseph Glanvill

Joseph Glanvill FRS (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century.^[1] In 1661 he predicted "To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic conveyances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence."^[2]

^ Richard S. Westfall, Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England (1973), p. 18.
^ Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, or The Vanity of Dogmatizing, chap. XXI, 1661 Retrieved 2020-03-22.

[1] Richard S. Westfall, Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England (1973), p. 18.

[2] Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, or The Vanity of Dogmatizing, chap. XXI, 1661 Retrieved 2020-03-22.

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