Isbn: 9780698106970 - franz anton mesmer__the wizard from vienna (2 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. The dust jacket some light sun fading on the spine, and has a few stains on it. The pages are lightly discoloured, but overall in good condition.Although Franz Anton Mesmer achieved notoriety in his lifetime, little is generally known about the turbulent career of the man who added the word 'mesmerism' to our language, and who made his contribution to conventional science as much as to the world of the occult.In this lively and well documented biography, Vincent Buranelli tells the story of the scholar and doctor of medicine, born the son of a Swabian gamekeeper in 1734, who used the seance, the hypnotic trance and the crisis as a means of curing psychosomatic illness. Practising in Imperial.…