Hannah’s Reviews > Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science > Status Update

Descartes’, Laplace’s demons: philosophical
Maxwell’s, Brownian motion: heat, thermodynamics

“The content of these texts seemed to contradict one of science’s much-trumpeted virtues and it’s most lasting accomplishment: the elimination of imaginary or supernatural beings from this world, including witches, unicorns, mermaids, demons, and many others.”

Not even at page one and we’ve already got this superstitious scientistic crap 🙄