2015-2016 Graduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2015-2016 Graduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LS 628 - Scientists and Psychics

(3.00 cr.)

By the end of the nineteenth century, a strange confluence of events had allowed some of the leading chemists, biologists, and psychologists of the day to investigate seances, hypnotic trances, precognition, clairvoyance, and telekinesis. This examination of late Victorian science explores the assumptions upon which physicists and psychics based their research, as well as the cultural milieu that provided such a fertile ground for both sets of investigations. The discoveries of Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Dr. Anna Kingsford serve as the focus for a detailed study of the "mutability" of facts within the context of science in fin-de-siècle Britain.



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