DifferentialEquations:TheirSolutionUsingSymmetries
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- 出版社 CambridgeUniversityPress
- 出版时间 1990年1月
- ISBN 9780521366892
- 定价 411.30
内容简介
TheOtherWorldexaminesthepublicfascinationwithspiritualismandpsychicalresearchinBritainfromthemid-nineteenthtotheearlytwentiethcentury.Itexploresthevarietyofsocialbackground,education,andprofessionalexpertisethatcharacterizedthemenandwomenwhoattendedséancesandinvestigatedpsychicphenomena,anditplacestheminthecontextoftheirtimeswithoutridiculingtheirbeliefs.Itisnotconcernedwiththequestionofwhetherpsychicphenomenaare'real',butratherattemptstounderstandthereasonswhyartisans,intellectuals,andaristocratsalikeembracedspiritualismasasurrogatereligionorendorsedpsychicalresearchasthescienceofthefuture.Whetherself-educatedworkers,medicaldoctors,clergymen,housewives,universityprofessors,journalists,comparativepsychologists,orNobelprize-winningphysicists,theycannotbedismissedascranksandeccentrics.TheireffortstomediatebetweenthedemandsofscienceandthecomfortsoffaithreflectedanxietiescentraltotheVictorianandEdwardiandecades.
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