{"product_id":"2940014969499","title":"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions \u0026 The Madness of Crowds Vol. I","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Law; his birth and youthful career--Duel between Law and\u003cbr\u003eWilson--Law's escape from the King's Bench--The \"Land-bank\"--Law's\u003cbr\u003egambling propensities on the continent, and acquaintance with the Duke\u003cbr\u003eof Orleans--State of France after the reign of Louis XIV.--Paper money\u003cbr\u003einstituted in that country by Law--Enthusiasm of the French people at\u003cbr\u003ethe Mississippi Scheme--Marshal Villars--Stratagems employed and\u003cbr\u003ebribes given for an interview with Law--Great fluctuations in\u003cbr\u003eMississippi stock--Dreadful murders--Law created comptroller-general\u003cbr\u003eof finances--Great sale for all kinds of ornaments in Paris--Financial\u003cbr\u003edifficulties commence--Men sent out to work the mines on the\u003cbr\u003eMississippi, as a blind--Payment stopped at the bank--Law dismissed\u003cbr\u003efrom the ministry--Payments made in specie--Law and the Regent\u003cbr\u003esatirised in song--Dreadful crisis of the Mississippi Scheme--Law,\u003cbr\u003ealmost a ruined man, flies to Venice--Death of the Regent--Law obliged\u003cbr\u003eto resort again to gambling--His death at Venice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginated by Harley Earl of Oxford--Exchange Alley a scene of great\u003cbr\u003eexcitement--Mr. Walpole--Sir John Blunt--Great demand for\u003cbr\u003eshares--Innumerable \"Bubbles\"--List of nefarious projects and\u003cbr\u003ebubbles--Great rise in South-sea stock--Sudden fall--General meeting\u003cbr\u003eof the directors--Fearful climax of the South-sea expedition--Its\u003cbr\u003eeffects on society--Uproar in the House of Commons--Escape of\u003cbr\u003eKnight--Apprehension of Sir John Blunt--Recapture of Knight at\u003cbr\u003eTirlemont--His second escape--Persons connected with the scheme\u003cbr\u003eexamined--Their respective punishments--Concluding remarks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TULIPOMANIA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConrad Gesner--Tulips brought from Vienna to England--Rage for the\u003cbr\u003etulip among the Dutch--Its great value--Curious anecdote of a sailor\u003cbr\u003eand a tulip--Regular marts for tulips--Tulips employed as a means of\u003cbr\u003especulation--Great depreciation in their value--End of the mania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ALCHYMISTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroductory remarks--Pretended antiquity of the\u003cbr\u003eart--Geber--Alfarabi--Avicenna--Albertus Magnus--Thomas\u003cbr\u003eAquinas--Artephius--Alain de Lisle--Arnold de Villeneuve--Pietro\u003cbr\u003ed'Apone--Raymond Lulli--Roger Bacon--Pope John XXII.--Jean de\u003cbr\u003eMeung--Nicholas Flamel--George Ripley--Basil Valentine--Bernard of\u003cbr\u003eTrèves--Trithemius--The Maréchal de Rays--Jacques Coeur--Inferior\u003cbr\u003eadepts--Progress of the infatuation during the sixteenth and\u003cbr\u003eseventeenth centuries--Augurello--Cornelius\u003cbr\u003eAgrippa--Paracelsus--George Agricola--Denys Zachaire--Dr. Dee and\u003cbr\u003eEdward Kelly--The Cosmopolite--Sendivogius--The Rosicrucians--Michael\u003cbr\u003eMayer--Robert Fludd--Jacob Böhmen--John Heydon--Joseph Francis\u003cbr\u003eBorri--Alchymical writers of the seventeenth century--Delisle--Albert\u003cbr\u003eAluys--Count de St. Germain--Cagliostro--Present state of the science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMODERN PROPHECIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerror of the approaching day of judgment--A comet the signal of that\u003cbr\u003eday--The prophecy of Whiston--The people of Leeds greatly alarmed at\u003cbr\u003ethat event--The plague in Milan--Fortune-tellers and\u003cbr\u003eAstrologers--Prophecy concerning the overflow of the Thames--Mother\u003cbr\u003eShipton--Merlin--Heywood--Peter of Pontefract--Robert\u003cbr\u003eNixon--Almanac-makers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFORTUNE-TELLING.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresumption and weakness of man--Union of Fortune-tellers and\u003cbr\u003eAlchymists--Judicial astrology encouraged in England from the time of\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth to William and Mary--Lilly the astrologer consulted by the\u003cbr\u003eHouse of Commons as to the cause of the Fire of London--Encouragement\u003cbr\u003eof the art in France and Germany--Nostradamus--Basil of\u003cbr\u003eFlorence--Antiochus Tibertus--Kepler--Necromancy--Roger Bacon,\u003cbr\u003eAlbertus Magnus, Arnold Villeneuve--Geomancy--Augury--Divination: list\u003cbr\u003eof various species of divination--Oneiro-criticism (interpretation of\u003cbr\u003edreams)--Omens","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default 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