![]() ![]() In some cases, they simply could not find scientific explanations for the stories they were gathering, or for what some of them had witnessed. Blum excels at demonstrating how troubled James and his cohorts were by their investigations. The author also focuses sharply on two women with apparent powers: the medium Leonora Piper and the Italian telekineticist Eusapia Palladino, who could make curtains billow and tables hang in the air. ![]() Although her focus is on the redoubtable William James, she offers much about his colleagues in the ghost-busting business, including William Crookes, William Fletcher Barrett, Edward Gurney, Richard Hodgson, Fred Myers, Henry Sidgwick, James Hyslop and others. of Wisconsin Love at Goon Park, 2002, etc.) has done her homework she seems to have read all the relevant correspondence and publications of the scientists and psychologists who, around the turn of the 20th century, tried to determine if there was scientific basis for spiritualism. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Blum (Science Journalism/Univ. ![]() An account of fin-de-siècle investigations into the murky worlds and weird works of mediums, mesmerists, rhabdomancers and spiritualists. ![]()
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