THE SIXTH SENSE AND OTHER STUDIES IN MODERN SCIENCE
Book Details + Condition: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. (London). First Edition, 1928. Hardcover. Small octavo. 174 pages. Orange cloth with black titling to spine and front board. A collection of popular scientific articles on some of the quirkier aspects of science, some of which were previously published in periodicals of the day. The author, David Fraser Fraser-Harris (1867 – 1937), was a Scottish Professor of physiology a writer with an interest in parapsychology who was associated with the National Laboratory of Psychical Research and attended various spiritualist séances with well-known mediums such as Helen Duncan and Rudi Schneider. Contents: The sixth sense and other studies in science; Can we believe our senses?; Deafness and its cause; What is breathing?; Dreams and dreaming; Seeing what is not there; Women and a sense of mechanism; Our unseen foes; Science and witchcraft; Transfusion of blood; Why does the heart beat?; Why eyes are blue; Men who have experimented on themselves; What Quakers have done for science; Undergraduates' discoveries; One-man effort; Science and preconceived perfection; The modern dinner; The duration of life. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards, with some darkening to cloth; interior is clean and free of markings, save light foxing to endpapers and mark to lower text block.
