Salem Witchcraft Legendre Functions

Legendre Functions

as well as its abundance of interesting facts and lore — all leavened with touches of humor

Now both volumes of the original have been reprinted together in this inexpensive Dover edition

fairly thorough

Salem Witchcraft Legendre FunctionsIn the late seventeenth century, nineteen residents of Salem, Massachusettscharged by their neighbors with practicing witchcraft were hanged. Their accusers, for the most part good and respectable people living in an immensely superstitious age, were convinced their fellow townspeople were in complicity with the devil. This book, first published in 1867 in two volumes, is still praised by historians as the most important book on the Salem witch