Book ID: CBB000074759

Sympathetic attractions: Magnetic practices, beliefs, and symbolism in 18th-century England (1996)

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Fara, Patricia (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 1996
Physical Details: xiii + 326 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Devens, R.P. (1998) Review of "Sympathetic attractions: Magnetic practices, beliefs, and symbolism in 18th-century England". Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 238-39). unapi

Review Hunter, M. (1999) Review of "Sympathetic attractions: Magnetic practices, beliefs, and symbolism in 18th-century England". American Historical Review (p. 243). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Winter, Alison
Florey, Ernst
Fara, Patricia
Wolters, Gereon
Thuillier, Jean-Paul
Sutton, Geoffrey V.
Journals
History of Science
Transactions of the International Congress on the Enlightenment
Skeptic
Natural History
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Publishers
UVK Universitätsverlag
Universitätsverlag
Payot
Laffont
Kaufmann
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
Concepts
Therapeutics
People
Mesmer, Franz Anton
Laycock, Thomas
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Franklin, Benjamin
Carpenter, William Benjamin
Braid, James
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
British Isles
France
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