{"id":56592,"date":"2022-09-22T03:28:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56592"},"modified":"2022-09-22T22:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T22:48:53","slug":"new-book-the-occult-and-the-sciences-in-modern-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/22\/new-book-the-occult-and-the-sciences-in-modern-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open-access review of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ehr\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ehr\/ceac114\/6583330\">Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;Modern&#8221; here meaning early modernity, from the 1870s through to the 1930s&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the whole we cannot see the turn to psychical research as a momentary lapse of reason on the part of late Victorian physicists. [And] we should not be embarrassed or surprised by the interest that leading physicists had in the occult.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open-access review of Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain. &#8220;Modern&#8221; here meaning early modernity, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/22\/new-book-the-occult-and-the-sciences-in-modern-britain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56652,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions\/56652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}