Episode 133: Proof Positive (ad-free) (Patreon)

The human tendency to study the unknown—to dig deep and search for the bedrock of truth at the bottom of the mystery—is one of our most enduring qualities. But while that tenacity has helped scientists unlock much of our world, it has also led us to unusual ideas.

And you’d be surprised what they recorded about it.

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Further Reading  

1. “Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years,” ScienceAlert, August 2015, https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years.
2. Robert Hay Carnie and Ronald Paterson Doig, “Scottish Printers and Booksellers 1668-1775: A Supplement,” Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 12 (1959) p. 150.
3. Charles Dickens, ed. “Tom in Spirits,” All the Year Round, Vol. 3 (1860).
4. Thomas Harmon Jobe, “The Devil in Restoration Science: The Glanvill-Webster Witchcraft Debate,” Isis, Vol. 72:3 (Sep. 1981), pp. 342-356.
5. Mark Jardine, “The Devil of Glenluce: Satan’s Invisible World Discovered,” Jardine’s Book of Martyrs.
6. J. Maxwell Wood, Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland (Library of Alexandria, 1977) pp. 321-343.
7. George Sinclair, The Hydrostaticks (George Swintoun, James Glen, and Thomas Brown, 1672).
8. George Sinclair, Satan’s Invisible World Discovered (Edinburgh, 1685) pp. 72-96.
9. “George Sinclair,” University of Glasgow, date unknown, https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0066&type=P.