Author: Various
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions is a manual that examines and explores superstitions. Excerpt: "It is surprising, considering the gigantic strides effected by modern science, how many of the errors and prejudices engendered by the ignorance of the dark ages remain current in the world in its present days of enlightenment. Like the winged seeds of certain weeds, their light and impalpable nature renders them only the more difficult of extirpation."
A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions
Author: Various
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions is a manual that examines and explores superstitions. Excerpt: "It is surprising, considering the gigantic strides effected by modern science, how many of the errors and prejudices engendered by the ignorance of the dark ages remain current in the world in its present days of enlightenment. Like the winged seeds of certain weeds, their light and impalpable nature renders them only the more difficult of extirpation."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions is a manual that examines and explores superstitions. Excerpt: "It is surprising, considering the gigantic strides effected by modern science, how many of the errors and prejudices engendered by the ignorance of the dark ages remain current in the world in its present days of enlightenment. Like the winged seeds of certain weeds, their light and impalpable nature renders them only the more difficult of extirpation."
Appleton's Literary Bulletin
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
Author: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
List of members in v.1-19, 21, 24-
Publisher:
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
List of members in v.1-19, 21, 24-
Nostradamus
Author: Stéphane Gerson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250017564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world? In Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom, historian Stéphane Gerson takes readers on a journey back in time to explore the life and afterlife of Michel de Nostredame, the astrologer whose Prophecies have been interpreted, adopted by successive media, and eventually transformed into the Gospel of Doom for the modern age. Whenever we seem to enter a new era, whenever the premises of our worldview are questioned or imperiled, Nostradamus offers certainty and solace. In 1666, guests at posh English dinner parties discussed his quatrain about the Great Fire of London. In 1942, the Jewish writer Irène Némirovsky latched her hopes for survival to Nostradamus' prediction that the war would soon end. And on September 12, 2001, teenagers proclaimed on the streets of Brooklyn that "this guy, Nostradamus" had seen the 9/11 attacks coming. Through prodigious research in European and American archives, Gerson shows that Nostradamus — a creature of the modern West rather than a vestige from some antediluvian era — tells us more about our past and our present than about our future. In chronicling the life of this mystifying figure and the lasting fascination with his predictions, Gerson's book becomes a historical biography of a belief: the faith that we can know tomorrow and master our anxieties through the powers of an extraordinary but ever more elusive seer.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250017564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world? In Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom, historian Stéphane Gerson takes readers on a journey back in time to explore the life and afterlife of Michel de Nostredame, the astrologer whose Prophecies have been interpreted, adopted by successive media, and eventually transformed into the Gospel of Doom for the modern age. Whenever we seem to enter a new era, whenever the premises of our worldview are questioned or imperiled, Nostradamus offers certainty and solace. In 1666, guests at posh English dinner parties discussed his quatrain about the Great Fire of London. In 1942, the Jewish writer Irène Némirovsky latched her hopes for survival to Nostradamus' prediction that the war would soon end. And on September 12, 2001, teenagers proclaimed on the streets of Brooklyn that "this guy, Nostradamus" had seen the 9/11 attacks coming. Through prodigious research in European and American archives, Gerson shows that Nostradamus — a creature of the modern West rather than a vestige from some antediluvian era — tells us more about our past and our present than about our future. In chronicling the life of this mystifying figure and the lasting fascination with his predictions, Gerson's book becomes a historical biography of a belief: the faith that we can know tomorrow and master our anxieties through the powers of an extraordinary but ever more elusive seer.
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
Author: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A World of Wonders
Author: Albany Poyntz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common fallacies
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common fallacies
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.]
Author: Willis and Sotheran
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Leland Stanford Junior University Publications. Psychical Research Monograph
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Willis's Current notes
Author: Willis's Current notes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description