Divining Science

Divining Science PDF Author: Warren Dym
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004188711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Book Description
The patronage of dowsers by mining administrations through the eighteenth century challenges common assumptions about the Enlightenment. Rather than decline in importance like alchemy and astrology, dowsing transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics.