A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change / John Glassie.

  • Glassie, John.
Date:
2012
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012.

Physical description

xvi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contributors

Contents

Apologetic Forerunner to This Kircherian Study -- Part One -- Incapable of Resisting the Force -- Inevitable Obstacles -- A Source of Great Fear -- Scenic Proceedings -- Chief Inciter of Action -- Beautiful Reports -- Part Two -- Secret Exotic Matters -- Habitation of Hell -- The Magnet -- An Innumerable Multitude of Catoptric Cats -- Four Rivers -- Egyptian Oedipus -- The Admiration of the Ignorant -- Little Worms -- Philosophical Transactions -- Underground World -- A Dream -- Everything -- Part Three -- Not As It Was -- Immune and Exempt -- Mentorella -- Closest of All to the Truth -- The Strangest Development.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Kircher)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781594488719
  • 1594488711