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Occult arts and sceptical sciences
Physics World, 2019As Richard Noakes explains in his new book, Physics and Psychics: the Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain, professional magicians of the Victorian theatre often challenged the claims made by psychics, mediums and spiritualists. You might expect such exposure of fraud to have been welcomed by the scientists of the time, but an interest in ...
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2011
Austrian philosopher, playwright, and artist Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) is perhaps best known as an educational philosopher and reformer, the founder of Steiner (or Waldorf) schools located around the world. Steiner was an active member and leader of the German branch of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society before forming his own Anthroposophical ...
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Austrian philosopher, playwright, and artist Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) is perhaps best known as an educational philosopher and reformer, the founder of Steiner (or Waldorf) schools located around the world. Steiner was an active member and leader of the German branch of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society before forming his own Anthroposophical ...
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2000
In his Muqaddima (Prolegomena) the well-known sage Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406) reported a diversity of opinion among Muslim jurists concerning the grounds for the imposition of the death penalty upon practitioners of magic. The term he employed here is siḥr , an appellation which denotes a very wide range of occult phenomena; it is generally rendered ...
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In his Muqaddima (Prolegomena) the well-known sage Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406) reported a diversity of opinion among Muslim jurists concerning the grounds for the imposition of the death penalty upon practitioners of magic. The term he employed here is siḥr , an appellation which denotes a very wide range of occult phenomena; it is generally rendered ...
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Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult
2007In the course of the nineteenth century the increasing importance of science changed the role that ‘mystery’ played in the collective imagination. Even before Queen Victoria’s reign Thomas Carlyle had reassessed common religious and popular beliefs in a chapter of Sartor Resartus (1833–34) entitled ‘Natural Supernaturalism’.
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Contributions of ‘citizen science’ to occultation astronomy
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering SciencesThe modern term ‘citizen science’ describes a very old tradition in the natural sciences. Until the specialization of the sciences at the end of the eighteenth century, the emergence of technical universities and the formation of a modern scientific enterprise, citizen science was the norm.
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