The thought reader craze : Victorian science at the enchanted boundary /

"Valuable"--Psypioneer Journal. Beginning in 1870, the hunger for scientific discovery in Great Britain drove prominent scientists, philosophers and others to promote the legitimacy of telepathy. This volume explores this unusual cultural phenomenon, showing how it was aided through the ye...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiley, Barry H., 1936- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland & Co., Publishers, [2012]
Temas:
1800-1899
Telepathy > History > 19th century.
Extrasensory perception.
Télépathie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Perception extrasensorielle.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy)
Telepathy.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • 1. Introduction ... and Mrs. Hayden
  • 2. The Borderland
  • 3. Crookes and D.D. Home
  • 4. The First Thought Reader
  • 5. The Crookes Galvanometer Tests
  • 6. Muscle Reading?
  • 7. W.I. Bishop and W.F. Barrett
  • 8. The Greatest Rascal
  • 9. Proof! The Creery Sisters
  • 10. Truth! Barrett and Bishop
  • 11. J.R. Brown and His Telegraph Test
  • 12. Stuart C. Cumberland, Thought Reader
  • 13. Thought Reading Extraordinary: Blackburn and Smith
  • 14. W.I. Bishop and "The Secret"
  • 15. The Thought Reader Craze
  • 16. "The Willingness to Deceive."
  • 17. The Conjuror and the Physicist (Devant and Lodge)
  • 18. The Blackburn Revelations
  • 19. Truth ... or Hunger
  • Epilogue; An Afterthought.

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