Victorian alchemy : : science, magic and ancient Egypt / / Eleanor Dobson.
Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ?rediscovered? in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), anci...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: enchanted pasts
- 1 Ghostly images: magic, illusion and technology
- 2 Worlds lost and found: journeys through time and space
- 3 Weird physics: visible light, invisible forces and the electromagnetic spectrum
- 4 Occult psychology: dream, trance and telepathy
- Conclusion: afterlives
- Bibliography
- Index.