TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackay,Charles
TI  - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
AV  - AZ 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Impostors and imposture
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - Delusions
KW  - Occultism -- Early works to 1900
KW  - Investments -- Psychological aspects
KW  - Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects
KW  - Hallucinations and illusions
KW  - Common fallacies
N1  - 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
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/884
ER  -