Leventhal, Herbert (1941-)
Leventhal, Herbert (1941-)
Author of scholarly studies on occultism. He was born October 9, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (B.A., 1962; Ph.D., 1973). His doctoral dissertation, In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: Occultism and Renaissance Science in Eighteenth-Century America, was published by the State University of New York Press in 1976. It grew out of his research on political thought in eighteenth-century American culture, in which he identified relics of occultism and Renaissance science that played an important part in the outlook of their time.
Sources:
Leventhal, Herbert. In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: Occultism and Renaissance Science in Eighteenth Century America. New York: State University of New York Press, 1976.