Physics and Psychics —— The Occult And The Sciences In Modern Britain

----- 历史科学：物理与心理学：现代英国的神秘与科学

ISBN: 9781316993057 出版年：2019 页码：422 Richard Noakes Cambridge University Press

This is the first systematic exploration of the intriguing connections between victorian physical sciences and the study of the controversial phenomena broadly classified as psychic, occult and paranormal. These phenomena included animal magnetism, spirit-rapping, telekinesis and telepathy. Richard noakes shows that psychic phenomena interested far more victorian scientists than we have previously assumed, challenging the view of these scientists as individuals clinging rigidly to a materialistic worldview. Physicists, chemists and other physical scientists studied psychic phenomena for a host of scientific, philosophical, religious and emotional reasons, and many saw such investigations as exciting new extensions to their theoretical and experimental researches. While these attempted extensions were largely unsuccessful, they laid the foundations of modern day explorations of the connections between physics and psychic phenomena.