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Technologies of magic : a cultural study of ghosts, machines, and the uncanny
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ISBN: 9780909952358 0909952353 Year: 2006 Publisher: Sydney : Power institute of fine arts,

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Des savants face a l'occulte, 1870-1940
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ISBN: 2707193054 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris : Éditions La Découverte,

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Tables tournantes et parlantes, somnambules et médiums, fantômes et ectoplasmes ont captivé l'attention d'une fraction non négligeable de la communauté scientifique française au tournant du XXe siècle. Ces phénomènes bizarres pouvaient-ils s'expliquer par la physique, par la biologie, ou bien relevaient-ils de la psychopathologie ? Nombreux furent les savants qui tentèrent de les soumettre à la méthode expérimentale : Pierre et Marie Curie participèrent aux séances d'une célèbre médium, Camille Flammarion enquêta sur la télépathie, tandis que le prix Nobel de physiologie Charles Richet proclama sa croyance aux fantômes et fonda une nouvelle science, la « métapsychique ». Puis, après cette période d'engouement pour les phénomènes occultes, dans les années 1930, en dépit (ou à cause) d'une radiesthésie aux ambitions scientifiques, toute forme d'occulte fut bannie du champ scientifique et renvoyée vers les « para-sciences ». Les neuf récits d'épisodes marquants de cette période réunis dans cet ouvrage se lisent comme autant de reportages inattendus et passionnants. Et au-delà, les historiens des sciences et de la culture qui ont contribué à ce livre apportent des explications troublantes à ce double mouvement d'ouverture puis de fermeture de la communauté scientifique française, dont les effets se font sentir jusqu'à nos jours.


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Bogomilism : The Afterlife of the "Bulgarian Heresy"
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Warsaw : Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk,

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This study in history of ideas looks at the hitherto unstudied subject matter of adaptations of the medieval gnostic movement known as Bogomilism to the needs of modern and postmodern discourses of Bulgarian identity. A wide range of texts of Bulgarian culture relevant for the revitalisation of Bogomilism is analysed, from the first works of writers of the national revival movement, to school textbooks, journalism, essays, fine literature, and esoteric books of the turn of the 20th century. The result is the establishment of connections between different strategies of mythologizing Bogomilism in modern Bulgarian culture and the projects of modernitas preferred by their (often mutually conflicted) authors.

Des savants face à l'occulte : 1870-1940
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ISBN: 2707136166 9782707136169 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris: La Découverte,

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L'occultisme devant la science
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Year: 1947 Volume: 161 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

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Handling Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution : Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton.
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ISBN: 9789004535473 9004535470 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boston : BRILL,

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"The Scientific Revolution saw the redefinition of many scholastic notions about the nature of the world and its constituent parts, from planets to particles. Wang's book introduces a convincing and wide-ranging narrative of the changing place of 'occult qualities' in the context of emergent new scientific methods and early modern disciplinary realignments. Through in-depth analysis of the diverse treatments of this notion, whereby it becomes now a hollow phrase, now a touchstone for the superiority of new physics, Wang shows how the transmission of this notion is key to understanding almost every facet of the new physics of the age"--


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Physics and Psychics : the Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain
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ISBN: 9781107188549 1107188547 9781316638569 1316638561 1316993051 1316882438 1316990818 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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Miti macchine magie : intrecci letterari e ipotesi scientifiche nell'età dei Lumi
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ISBN: 8880913255 Year: 1996 Publisher: Bologna : CLUEB,

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The solar mystery : an inquiry into the temporal and the eternal background of the rise of modern civilization.
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ISBN: 8256014075 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oslo Solum

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Science confronts the paranormal
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ISBN: 0879753145 9780879753146 Year: 1986 Publisher: Buffalo (N.Y.): Prometheus,

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