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Science And The Séance: Why Victorian Scientists Took Ghosts SeriouslyOn July 23, 1924, the editor of Scientific American, O.D. Munn, and six members of a scientific investigative committee ...
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This 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion"Spectropia" demystified the techniques used by mediums who claimed they could speak to the dead, revealing the "absurd follies of Spiritualism" ...
Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced their once-reviled relative. The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries with his ...
This trend was augmented by the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the middle class in the 19th century, which enabled young men to select a spouse and pay for a wedding, regardless of ...
The historic Rosson House Museum in downtown Phoenix is offering a spine-chilling ‘Seances and Spiritualists Tour’ this ...
Sitters will join a Victorian investigator to view historic “demonstrations” of mediumship, relying on primary sources from the nineteenth century. Séances occur every 20 minutes starting at ...
two knocks for no. By the late 19th century, many new religious movements were gaining ground in our relatively new country.
Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...
Spiritualism preached positivity and an accessible, benevolent higher power — just like modern New Age spirituality ...
Funded via a foundation established by nineteenth-century Big Pharma businessman Henry Wellcome, the Wellcome Collection’s ...
Sitters will join a Victorian investigator to view historic “demonstrations” of mediumship, relying on primary sources from the nineteenth century.
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