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Levitation - The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension (Paperback)
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Levitation - The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension (Paperback)
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Levitation tells the peculiar story of those who have dreamed,
believed or practised levitation, whether they were successful or
not. Levitation could be thought of best as a pre- and parallel
history of aviation, but it is not really about flights of the
aeronautical kind. Instead, the book tracks the long-standing
belief that we could float relatively unaided. Early modern
scientists believed in the force of levity as an opposing force to
gravity. Traditional societies have held deep-rooted shamanic
traditions of spirit- and dream-flight through storytelling.
Ancient religious movements have long believed in the power of
ascetic saints to hover in sublime ecstasy. Magicians and
mesmerists have employed the tricks of stage, cinema and the enigma
of Eastern traditions to convince audiences of their power to lift
through thought alone. And science-fiction novelists and urban
planners have speculated on floating cities hovering high above the
earth. Many artists have experimented with levitation too, from the
Surrealists to Yves Klein. In this book Peter Adey explores the
idea of levitation within our cultural, scientific and spiritual
lives. From science to illustration, poetry, philosophy, law,
technology and a wider popular, spiritual and visual imagin-ation,
Levitation casts the levitator as a far more vulnerable figure than
we may have thought.
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