Transit of Venus October 4, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beachcombing had some fun earlier in the summer with the most famous act of nineteenth-century spiritualism: Daniel Home’s floating escapade back in 1868. He recently came across this description of a rival levitator, Agnes Nichol Guppy (obit 1917) and her famous ‘transit of Venus’. Note that this took place some three years after Home’s own […]
