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Occult arts and sceptical sciences

09 Dec 2019
Taken from the December 2019 issue of Physics World.

Philip Ball reviews Physics and Psychics: the Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain by Richard Noakes

Invisible forces: In the 19th century, “psychic” phenomena were taken seriously by many scientis

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Philip Ball is a science writer based in London, UK. He is the author of Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different, which won the 2018 Physics World Book of the Year, e-mail p.ball@btinternet.com
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