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Keely and His Discoveries: Aerial Navigation

Bloomfield H., Mrs. Moore

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 346 pages

This collection of essays presents the theories of inventor John Keely and his claimed discoveries in vibratory force, etheric energy and aerial navigation. It blends speculative science with spiritual and philosophical reflections on a universal life-force. It offers a window into nineteenth-century alternative science and its hopes for new forms of propulsion.

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Contents

  1. CONTENTS.
  2. PREFACE.
  3. INTRODUCTION.
  4. KEELY AND HIS DISCOVERIES. CHAPTER I. 1872 TO 1882. INTRODUCTORY.
  5. CHAPTER II. 1882 TO 1886. ETHER THE TRUE PROTOPLASM, AN EPITOME OF MACVICAR’S SKETCH OF A PHILOSOPHY.
  6. CHAPTER III. THE NATURE OF KEELY’S PROBLEMS. 1885 TO 1887.
  7. CHAPTER IV. SYMPATHETIC VIBRATORY FORCE, 1887.
  8. CHAPTER V. ETHERIC VIBRATION. THE KEY FORCE.
  9. CHAPTER VI. THE FOUNTAIN HEAD OF FORCE.
  10. CHAPTER VII. THE KEY TO THE PROBLEMS. KEELY’S SECRETS.
  11. CHAPTER VIII. 1888. HELPERS ON THE ROAD, AND HINDERERS.
  12. CHAPTER IX. 1889–1890. KEELY SUPPORTED BY DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE. AERIAL NAVIGATION.
  13. CHAPTER X. 1881–1891. THE KEELY MOTOR BUBBLE. MACVICAR’S LOGICAL ANALYSIS.
  14. CHAPTER XI. VIBRATORY SYMPATHETIC POLAR FLOWS.—KEELY’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE.
  15. CHAPTER XII. 1891. VIBRATORY PHYSICS.—TRUE SCIENCE.
  16. CHAPTER XIII. 1891. “MORE SCIENCE.”
  17. CHAPTER XIV. VIBRATORY PHYSICS.—THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN MIND AND MATTER.
  18. CHAPTER XV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.—KEELY THE FOUNDER OF A SYSTEM.
  19. CHAPTER XVI. 1891. AN APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE CONTINUANCE OF KEELY’S RESEARCHES.
  20. CHAPTER XVII. 1891. MORE OF KEELY’S THEORIES.—HIS TRADUCERS EXPOSED.
  21. CHAPTER XVIII. A PIONEER IN AN UNKNOWN REALM.
  22. CHAPTER XIX. LATENT FORCE IN INTERSTITIAL SPACES—ELECTRO-MAGNETIC RADIATION—MOLECULAR DISSOCIATION.
  23. CHAPTER XX. 1892. PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE—KEELY’s PRESENT POSITION. (A Review of the Situation.)
  24. CHAPTER XXI. FAITH BY SCIENCE: THE DAWN OF A NEW ORDER OF THINGS.
  25. CONCLUSION. KEELY’S PHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY.
  26. APPENDIX I.
  27. APPENDIX II.
  28. APPENDIX III.
  29. TO JOHN ERNST WORRELL KEELY.
  30. Colophon

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