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From Pat Deveney's database:
Zadkiel's Magazine. Conducted by Capt.
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| Bodleian Library; BL. | |
| Zadkiel's Magazine V1 N1 January 1849 | |
| Zadkiel's Magazine V1 N2 February 1849 | |
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Read across 1849, Zadkiel's Magazine is the organ of “Zadkiel” (Richard James Morrison), the father of Victorian public astrology — and its subtitle tells the tale: a “Record and Review of Astrology, Phrenology, Mesmerism, and other Sciences.” Its content bundles astrology with mesmerism and phrenology as sister sciences of the invisible: the astral and sidereal influences of the heavens treated as one more force propagating through the same imponderable medium that carries the magnetizer's will. It shows how the Victorians grouped astrology, phrenology, and mesmerism together as a family of fluidic sciences — the stars, the brain-organs, and the magnetic operator all working through one unseen agent. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Astrology | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | Phrenology and Physiognomy |
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