Download or read book Parapsychology written by John Beloff and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a "history of ideas" account of the retreat of magical thinking in Europe before the rise of the modern scientific world view. It examines the challenge to this view presented by the physical researchers of the 19th century employing scientific methods and criteria.