Era
1850s
7 entries in the archive from the 1850s.
Biographies (7)
Daniel Dunglas Home | Biography
Daniel Dunglas Home, the Scottish-born Connecticut-raised medium of the Victorian period who produced phenomena across the drawing-rooms of London, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Rome...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Biography
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Russian-born co-founder of the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Author of Isis Unveiled...
Henry Steel Olcott | Biography
Henry Steel Olcott, the American Civil War officer, agricultural-investigation journalist, and lawyer who became the first President of the Theosophical Society at its founding in...
Joseph Rodes Buchanan | Biography
Joseph Rodes Buchanan, the Kentucky-born physician who founded psychometry in 1841 through experiments with a sensitive who described the properties of metals and chemicals from...
Jules Verne | Biography
Jules Verne, the Nantes-born French writer whose Voyages Extraordinaires across the 1863 to 1905 period are the substantive cultural-grammar source of three documented...
Sir William Crookes | Biography
Sir William Crookes, the chemist who discovered thallium in 1861, invented the Radiometer in 1872, gave his name to the vacuum tube Wilhelm Roentgen used to discover X-rays in...
William Stainton Moses | Biography
William Stainton Moses, the Lincolnshire-born English clergyman who served as a master at University College School London from 1871 to 1889 and produced under the pen name M.A....
