The Psychic Force Serialized: William Crookes and The Quarterly Journal of Science, 1870–1874

This article considers the way chemist William Crookes utilized the editorship of the Quarterly Journal of Science to promote the scientific importance of spirit phenomena. It explores the publishing of Crookes’s series of sensational articles that investigated the ‘Psychic Force’, a purported force...

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Main Author: Hesketh, Ian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Aries
Year: 2022, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-41
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Crookes, William 1832-1919 / Royal Institution of Great Britain, Verfasserschaft1 / Spirits / Natural sciences / Experiment
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AZ New religious movements
KBF British Isles
Further subjects:B serialization
B Victorian science
B William Crookes
B Psychic Force
B Spiritualism
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