Samuel Hibbert

Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A discussion from 1825 of the physical and physiological causes which can lead to claims of seeing of ghosts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 701g
• ISBN-13: 9781108027724
• ISBN-10: 1108027725
• Artikelnr.: 32893915

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Sketches of Certain Opinions, Ancient and Modern, which Have Been
Entertained on the Subject of Apparitions; Part II. The Particular Morbid
Affections with which the Production of Phantasms is Often Connected; Part
III. Proofs that the Objects of Spectral Illusions Are Frequently Suggested
by the Fantastic Imagery of Superstitious Belief; Part IV. An Attempt to
Investigate the Mental Laws which Give Rise to Spectral Illusions; Part V.
Slight Remarks on the Modifications which the Intellectual Faculty often
Undergoes During Intense Excitements of the Mind; Part VI. Summary of the
Comparative Degrees of Faintness, Vividness, or Intensity Subsisting
between Sensations and Ideas, during their Various Excitements and
Depressions; Part VI. Summary of the Comparative Degrees of Faintness,
Vividness, or Intensity Subsisting between Sensations and Ideas, during
their Various Excitements and Depressions.