Author(s): Jimena Canales

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As the demons of superstition were being exorcized from the modern world by the enlightening power of treason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Spanning four centuries of discovery, Jimena Canales tells a shadow history of science and the demons that bedevil it. She explores how leading scientific thinkers such as Rene Descartes. James Clerk Maxwell, and Albert Einstein used demons in thought experiments to explore problems, better understand nature, and make the impossible real Beleviled reveals how these imaginary familiars helped unlock the secrets of entropy, heredity, relativity, and other scientific wonders-and continue to inspire marvelous breakthroughs today. Book jacket.