The New Prometheans

Author : Courtenay Raia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 443 pages
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Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226635354

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The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger cultural need. Victorians were on the hunt for self-understanding. Mesmerists, spiritualists, and other romantic seekers roamed sunken landscapes of entrancement, and when psychology was finally ready to confront these altered states, psychical research was adopted as an experimental vanguard. Far from a rejected science, it was a necessary heterodoxy, probing mysteries as diverse as telepathy, hypnosis, and even séance phenomena. Its investigators sought facts far afield of physical laws: evidence of a transcendent, irreducible mind. The New Prometheans traces the evolution of psychical research through the intertwining biographies of four men: chemist Sir William Crookes, depth psychologist Frederic Myers, ether physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, and anthropologist Andrew Lang. All past presidents of the society, these men brought psychical research beyond academic circles and into the public square, making it part of a shared, far-reaching examination of science and society. By layering their papers, textbooks, and lectures with more intimate texts like diaries, letters, and literary compositions, Courtenay Raia returns us to a critical juncture in the history of secularization, the last great gesture of reconciliation between science and sacred truths.

Author : Robert S. De Ropp
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3613775

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Author : Courtenay Raia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226635491

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The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger cultural need. Victorians were on the hunt for self-understanding. Mesmerists, spiritualists, and other romantic seekers roamed sunken landscapes of entrancement, and when psychology was finally ready to confront these altered states, psychical research was adopted as an experimental vanguard. Far from a rejected science, it was a necessary heterodoxy, probing mysteries as diverse as telepathy, hypnosis, and even séance phenomena. Its investigators sought facts far afield of physical laws: evidence of a transcendent, irreducible mind. The New Prometheans traces the evolution of psychical research through the intertwining biographies of four men: chemist Sir William Crookes, depth psychologist Frederic Myers, ether physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, and anthropologist Andrew Lang. All past presidents of the society, these men brought psychical research beyond academic circles and into the public square, making it part of a shared, far-reaching examination of science and society. By layering their papers, textbooks, and lectures with more intimate texts like diaries, letters, and literary compositions, Courtenay Raia returns us to a critical juncture in the history of secularization, the last great gesture of reconciliation between science and sacred truths.

Author : Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Publisher : Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 0071407952

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Prometheans in the Lab by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Pdf

Table of contents includes: Soap and Nicholas Leblanc, Color and William Henry Perkin, Sugar and Norbert Rillieux, Clean water and Edward Frankland, Fertilizer, poison gas, and Fritz Haber, Leaded gasoline, safe refrigeration and Thomas Midgley, Jr., Nylon and Wallace Hume Carothers, DDT and Paul Hermann Muller, Lead-free gasoline and Clair C. Patterson.

Author : John Bruce Leonard
Publisher : Arktos Media Limited
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1912975130

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The New Prometheans by John Bruce Leonard Pdf

The Enlightenment ideologies which have guided the West for the past five centuries are reaching their final terminus. The New Prometheans is a brave exploration of the terrain of our times, and an attempt to determine the borders of the terra incognita of the future, as a summons to the Occident to become the forger of a higher tomorrow.

Author : Robert S. De Ropp
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035073381

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The New Prometheans by Robert S. De Ropp Pdf

Author : John S. Lambert
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000000879019

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Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849167086

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The Prometheans by Max Adams Pdf

The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born and largely unschooled, they were part of a new generation of artists, scientists and inventors who witnessed the creation of the modern world. William, the eldest, was a cussedly eccentric inventor who couldn't look at a piece of machinery without thinking about how to improve it; Richard, a courageous soldier, fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo; Jonathan, a hellfire preacher tormented by madness and touched with a visionary genius reminiscent of William Blake, almost burned down York Minster in 1829; while John, the youngest Martin, single-handedly invented, mastered and exhausted an entire genre of painting, the apocalyptic sublime, while playing host to the foremost writers, scientists and thinkers of his day. In The Prometheans Max Adams interweaves the fascinating story of these maverick siblings with a magisterial and multi-faceted account of the industrial, political and artistic ferment of early 19th-century Britain. His narrative centres on a generation of inventors, artists and radical intellectuals (including the chemist Humphry Davy, the engineer George Stephenson, the social reformer Robert Owen and the poet Shelley) who were seeking to liberate humanity from the tyranny of material discomfort and political oppression. For Adams, the shared inspiration that binds this generation together is the cult of Prometheus, the titan of ancient Greek mythology who stole fire from Zeus to give to mortal man, and who became a potent symbol of political and personal liberation from the mid-18th century onwards. Whether writing about Davy's invention of the miner's safety lamp, the scandalous private life of the Prince Regent, the death of Shelley or J.M.W. Turner's use of colour, Adams's narrative is pacy, characterful, and rich in anecdote, quotation and memorable character sketch. Like John Martin himself, he has created a sprawling and brightly coloured canvas on an epic scale.

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451462173

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Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear Pdf

Seeker, a woman enchanted by the Faerie Queen and forced to kidnap human children for the pleasure of her mistress, goes after her latest prey, a Merlin, a child possessing a limitless magic that could tip the ultimate balance of power. Reprint.

Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226577135

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Promethean Ambitions by William R. Newman Pdf

In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned—and often negative—responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts—a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being—the homunculus—led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means. In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.

Author : Justin Achilli,Joseph Carriker,Jess Hartley,Wood Ingham
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 1588464881

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Pandora's Book by Justin Achilli,Joseph Carriker,Jess Hartley,Wood Ingham Pdf

Included in this collection are vols. distributed as well as published by White Wolf Pub.

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451462092

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Ink and Steel by Elizabeth Bear Pdf

With playwright and spy Kit Marley dead, the victim of murder, dramatist William Shakespeare unsuccessfully takes on the Promethean Club's secret battle against sorcerers out to destroy England, until Marley, resurrected by Faerie enchantment, comes to his aid, but first Kit must find the traitor responsible for his death. Original.

Author : William B. Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319292632

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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans by William B. Meyer Pdf

This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies.

Author : Troy Denning
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982143633

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Halo: Shadows of Reach by Troy Denning Pdf

USA TODAY BESTSELLER A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! October 2559. It has been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team—John-117, the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058—are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach. Their former home and training ground—and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War—Reach still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory—assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana. But Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there. Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. And with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option…

Author : Robert W. Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557272648

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The Promethean Divide by Robert W. Reid Pdf

Three adventurers; a wealthy publisher, a soldier-of-fortune private eye, and an eccentric techie investigate the suspicious death of a friend. The case puts them on the trail of a strange serial killer who seems to have extraordinary powers. Their search leads to a secret society and astounding truths about mankind's past and future. As the human race rapidly approaches its technological singularity, these three comrades become enmeshed in the unfolding future of mankind. They are privileged to glimpse man's destiny on the other side of The Promethean Divide.