Mackay, Charles 1814-1889 creator text utu 1997 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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 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 AZ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/884 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/884 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133037.0 884