Joseph Glanvill [SEP] date of birth
Joseph Glanvill
Joseph Glanvill (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century. In 1661 he predicted "The time will come, when making use of magnetic waves that permeate the ether...we shall communicate with [persons on the opposite side of the globe]."
H. Popkin, "The Development of the Philosophical Reputation of Joseph Glanvill", Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr., 1954), pp. 305–311
- Dorothea Krook, "Two Baconians: Robert Boyle and Joseph Glanvill", Huntington Library Quarterly 18 (1955): 261–78
- Robert M. Burns (1981), "The Great Debate on Miracles: From Joseph Glanvill to David Hume"
- Sascha Talmor (1981), "Glanvill: The Uses