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“The Book of the Damned” by Charles Fort (1919)
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“A Procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.” (Chapter 1, The Book of the Damned)
“The Book of the Damned” is a monumental, revolutionary endeavor that Charles Fort has established a NEW discipline, the Anomalistics. He respects raw facts that science has ignored and rejected, and calls them “the damned,” which dogmatic mainstream science and the conformist scientists have excluded. But as he shrewdly pointed out as “rhythm of Heavens and Hells,” the authority of science is fleeting, and the paradigm is shifting All the time. Remind Copernicus, Newton, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and the next is coming soon… This shows how our views and knowledge are narrow, partial, frivolous, and precarious.
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Charles Fort's Skepticism of Science
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (1563) |
1: Thomas Kuhn's Paradigm
2: Metaphysical viewpoints
“Science is very much like the Civil War, in the U. S. A. No matter which side won, it would have been an American victory. By Science, I mean conventionalization of alleged knowledge. It, or maybe she, acts to maintain itself, or whatever, against further enlightenment, or alleged enlightenment but when giving in, there is not surrender, but partnership, and something that had been bitterly fought then becomes another factor in its, or her, prestige.” (Chapter 11, Lo!)
Darwinism and evolution
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| Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
1: Catholicism as the Authority
“It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damned; that salvation only precedes perdition.” (Chapter 1, The Book of the Damned)
Intermediatism
1: Aristotle's Golden Mean
“I conceive of one inter-continuous nexus, in which and of which all seeming things are only different expressions, but in which all things are localizations of one attempt to break away and become real things, or to establish entity or positive difference or final demarcation or unmodified independence—or personality or soul, as it is called in human phenomena—” (Chapter 1, The Book of the Damned)
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Further reading (sponsored by Amazon):
Charles Fort worked for 27 years at the British Museum and the New York Public Library, gathering material on phenomena from the borderlands between science and fantasy. His research appeared in 4 books: The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, ALL of which are included in this “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”(Dover Occult series), ALL in ONE!
Table of Contents
The Book of the Damned
New Lands
Lo!
Wild Talents
Index
First published in 1962, Thomas Kuhn's “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” reshaped our understanding of the scientific enterprise and human inquiry in general. In “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” he challenged long-standing assumptions about scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but instead occur outside of "normal science." This is the monumental 50th Anniversary Edition!
Table of Contents
Introductory Essay by Ian Hacking
Preface
1 Introduction: A Role for History
2 The Route to Normal Science
3 The Nature of Normal Science
4 Normal Science as Puzzle-solving
5 The Priority of Paradigms
6 Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries
7 Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories
8 The Response to Crisis
9 The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions
10 Revolutions as Changes of World View
11 The Invisibility of Revolutions
12 The Resolution of Revolutions
13 Progress through Revolutions
Postscript—1969
Notes
Index
“Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural” is the first fully rendered literary biography of Charles Fort, who, more than any other figure, would define our idea of the anomalous and paranormal! In “Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural,” the acclaimed historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer goes deeply into the life of Charles Fort.
Table of Contents
Author’s Introduction
Epigraph
1 But the Damned Will March
2 Toddy’s Nose Bleeds So Readily
3 Littleness that Was No Longer There
4 We Wrapped the Piece of Cake to Keep Always
5 Blue Miles, Green Miles, Yellow Miles
6 We, Then a Great Famous Man
7 Anybody Could Write a True Story
8 Leaping Out of a Window, Head First
9 “To Work!” Cried Mr. Birtwhistle
10 X Exists!
11 A Battle is About to Be Fought
12 It is a Religion
13 Children Cry for It
14 The London Triangle
15 That Frog Would Be God
16 The World Has Cut Me Out—I Have Cut Myself Out
17 A Welcoming Hand to Little Frogs and Periwinkles
18 Not a Bottle of Catsup Can Fall Without Being Noted
19 Beginning Anywhere
20 Fall In! Forward! March!
Acknowledgements
Notes and Credits
INDEX
About the Author
