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Periodical: The Scientific and Literary Messenger

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From Pat Deveney's journal database:

Scientific and Literary Messenger, The.
Devoted to Astro-Meteorology, Astronomy, Predictory Astronomy, Astrology, Geology, Botany, Chemistry, and Phisical Sciences.
1842 Monthly
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. Editor: W.J. Simmonite.

1/1, January 1842. 24 pp. Simmonite's preface to the bound volume of the journal notes that he would have completed the first volume in 1842 but was delayed "from lengthened and serious affliction," and that his plans to continue the journal monthly at 4d. a number would be put off until he could obtain the names of 150 persons who would take 4 copies each at 1s. per month. On Simmonite and his horary astrology, see the note under Quarterly Celestial Philosopher. BL

Other Sources:
Issues:Scientific and Literary Messenger V1 1842
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Scientific and Literary Messenger is a nineteenth-century composite periodical that gathers the era's alternative sciences under a single respectable-sounding masthead. Its principal subject is technical astrology, including judicial and horary work with houses, aspects, and the 'lord of the tenth,' but it gives serious space to genuine phrenology—reading character from the cranial organs of destructiveness, secretiveness, and combativeness—and to mesmerism and the Reichenbachian 'odic' fluid. A faint success-and-prosperity note anticipates later mind-power writing. Discussions of geological 'theories of the earth' show the magazine's broader claim to scientific coverage. It typifies the antebellum-to-Victorian marketplace in which astrology, phrenology, and animal magnetism were presented together as branches of one occult science.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Astrology