AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min chapter
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 14: The Winthrop Alchemical Physician's Chair
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Alchemy of John Winthrop Junior
There was a lot of interest in sorcery and divination, in the occult arts. The authorities either were weaker or they were less interested in investigating and enforcing orthodoxy. There's this antinomian idea that person who is saved is freed from the law. They are incapable of sin. And also, sometimes connected with antinomistism, there is perfectionism. So you can see it as almost a kind of astrological machine guiding and empowering the treatment of this patient and ling the patient. It might sound a little weird or a little far fetched as a process happening in puritan colonial connecticut.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode