Fatal attraction : magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara.

  • Fara, Patricia
Date:
2005
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Thriplow, Cambridge : Icon Books Ltd, 2005.

Physical description

ix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Contents

Mysterious magnets -- pt. 1. Halley's holistic hypotheses. Scientific starters -- Magnetic visions -- Inside the earth -- Mapping magnetism -- pt. 2. Knight's navigational novelties. Who was Gowin Knight? -- Marketing magnets -- Commercialising compasses -- Enigmatic theories -- pt. 3. Mesmer's magnetic medicine. The rise and rise of Franz Anton Mesmer -- Animal magnetism exposed -- Mesmeric movements -- Faraday's fields.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AFQ.AA6-7
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  • 1840466324
  • 9781840466324