Author : Warren Dym
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004188711
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Divining Science by : Warren Dym
Download or read book Divining Science written by Warren Dym and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The patronage of dowsers by mining administrations through the eighteenth century challenges common assumptions about the Enlightenment. Rather than decline in importance like alchemy and astrology, dowsing transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics.