Hunter Michael
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ, UK.
Notes Rec R Soc Lond. 2017 Mar 20;71(1):7-19. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2016.0022. Epub 2016 Oct 12.
This paper publishes for the first time the dedication to the Royal Society that John Webster wrote for his (1677), but which failed to appear in the published work. It also investigates the circumstances in which the book received the Royal Society's imprimatur, in the light of the Society's ambivalent attitude towards witchcraft and related phenomena in its early years. The paper concludes that the role of Sir Jonas Moore as Vice-President in licensing the book was highly irregular, evidently reflecting the troubled state of the Society in the mid to late 1670s.
本文首次发表了约翰·韦伯斯特为其1677年的著作所写的、但未在已出版作品中出现的献给皇家学会的献词。本文还根据皇家学会早年对巫术及相关现象的矛盾态度，研究了该书获得皇家学会认可的情况。本文得出结论，乔纳斯·穆尔爵士作为副会长批准该书出版的行为极不规范，这显然反映了17世纪70年代中后期该学会的混乱状况。
