Calef, Robert

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.