witchcraft

Kepler’s Demons

The astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) is one of the founders of modern astronomy. Among other accomplishments, he identified three laws that describe planetary motion. Kepler was born in a small German town and was educated in a church-school. He had… Read More

How Bewitching

Cotton Mather was a puritan minister who wrote a how-to book on strategies to seek out witches. He has a building at Harvard named after him.… Read More