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Joseph Glanvill
(1636 - 1680)
British natural philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Joseph Glanvill (2)
And for mathematical sciences, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of Hellebore.
— Joseph Glanvill
The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661), ch. xxi, 209.
See also: | Doubt (27)
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.
— Joseph Glanvill
Saducismus Triumphatus or Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions (1689),72-3.
