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Periodical: Zadkiel's Magazine

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Zadkiel's Magazine.
Or, Record and Review of Astrology, Phrenology, Mesmerism, and other Sciences.
O magna vis veritatis!
1849
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Hall & Co.
1/1-1/2, January and February 1849 (apparently all published). 32 pp., 6 d./copy.

Conducted by Capt. Richard James Morrison, as "Zadkiel." The journal in its first issue promised "the fair investigation of the Truths of Natural Philosophy, more especially with reference to the furtherance of the sciences named in our title," and to "shoot folly as it flies," but its real purpose was the upholding of the doctrines of astrology. Articles on the origins, history and bright prospects of astrology, on astro-meteorology and on mesmerism in India (from the Zoist), translations from Cardan, as well as spirited rejoinders to the wrong-headed editors of the current newspapers. The journal seems to have intended to include contributions by authors other than Morrison but carried only a single article by Clara Seyton on the drama and her translation of a story from Dumas. There must be a story there, but it is unrecoverable. Listed in F. Leigh Gardner, Bibliotheca Astroligica, 121.

Other Sources:Bodleian Library; BL.
Issues:Zadkiel's Magazine V1 N1 January 1849
Zadkiel's Magazine V1 N2 February 1849
Claude-Generated Themes:   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.
Topics:Astrology | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | Phrenology and Physiognomy