Another book of possible interest to Tentaclii readers, and like yesterday’s book also in open access. The book Victorian Alchemy: Science, magic and ancient Egypt (2022) has a substantial chapter surveying “Weird physics: visible light, invisible forces and the electromagnetic spectrum” in the Victorian and Edwardian period and in relation to Egyptomania. This builds on some thirty or so years of scholarly interest in and around the topic, but is here angled towards the fervent interest in Ancient Egypt during the period. It can’t not mention Lovecraft’s “Nyarlathotep” (1920), but that’s obviously outside the time frame and thus the mention is very brief.

The book has a “Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial” licence.