Victorian Alchemy

Abstract

List of figures viiiAcknowledgements xii Introduction: enchanted pasts 1 1 Ghostly images: magic, illusion and technology 20 2 Worlds lost and found: journeys through time and space 77 3 Weird physics: visible light, invisible forces and the electromagnetic spectrum 4 Occult psychology: dream, trance and telepathy Conclusion: afterlives Bibliography Index viii List of figures 0.1 Paul Hardy, 'Into the mouthpiece of the machine I spoke, asking "Do you hear me?" ', in