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The Invention of Telepathy
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The belief in telepathy is still widely held and yet it remains much disputed by scientists. Roger Luckhurst explores the origins of the term in the late nineteenth century. Telepathy mixed physical and mental sciences, new technologies and old superstitions, and it fascinated many famous people in the late Victorian era: Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Robert L
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Hardcover, 324 pages
Published
August 22nd 2002
by OUP Oxford
(first published 2002)
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“The problem of confirming theories in the conjectural sciences was on the forefront of scientists’ minds during the Victorian era. Frank notes that Thomas Huxley, one of Darwin’s greatest supporters, “worried aloud about the fact that the paleontological record shows ‘no evidence of [evolutionary] modification…’. In Origin of Species Darwin’s imagination had driven him beyond the evidence available to him.” The fossil record, by definition, only shows extinct species, and as Darwin notes, yield
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