02088cam a22004213u 4500 884 UtSlPG 20260610133037.0 m cr n 260607r1997||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 AZ Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1997 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds Release date is 1997-04-01 Produced by An Anonymous Project Gutenberg Volunteer and David Widger "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3" by Charles Mackay is a volume first published in 1841. This final volume explores humanity's philosophical delusions, focusing on the misguided pursuits of alchemists seeking to transform base metals into gold. Mackay examines how practitioners and their noble sponsors fell prey to elaborate deceptions and self-delusion. The volume also investigates fortune-telling and magnetisers who claimed to cure diseases through imagination, revealing the persistent human susceptibility to pseudoscientific beliefs and supernatural explanations across centuries. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Social psychology Swindlers and swindling Impostors and imposture Alchemy Delusions Occultism -- Early works to 1900 Investments -- Psychological aspects Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects Hallucinations and illusions Common fallacies https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/884 43003 43003