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Robert Calef , 1648-1719, known primarily as author of More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700). A Boston cloth merchant, probably born in England, he bitterly attacked Cotton Mather for his part in the Salem, Mass., witchcraft trials. The book, published in London because Boston printers would not accept it, generally condemned the view of witchcraft then prevailing and had a salutary effect throughout New England. It is reprinted in S. G. Drake, comp., The Witchcraft Delusion in New England (3 vol., 1866, repr. 1970).

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Calef, Robert (1648–1719), Boston merchant, author of More Wonders of the Invisible World (London, 1700), a well‐documented, bitterly satiric attack on those responsible for the Salem witchcraft trials (1692), particularly Cotton Mather, who replied in Some Few Remarks upon a Scandalous Book (1701). Increase Mather is said to have ordered Calef's book burned in the Harvard Yard.

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