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WorkCarlo Amoretti

Amoretti's writings on animal magnetism and sidereal/electrical sensibility

Amoretti's writings on animal magnetism and sidereal/electrical sensibility Inferred

Carlo Amoretti (1741–1816)

InferredFuller cites 'Amoretti' as the author of a report about a man named 'Papponi' who was cured of convulsive attacks by change of place. This is Carlo Amoretti (1741–1816), an Italian scholar who wrote on natural philosophy including animal magnetism and dowsing (rhabdomancy).

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Documented 1843

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Papponi, (of whom Amoretti writes,) a man of such susceptibility, was cured of convulsive attacks by change of place.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller cites 'Amoretti' as the author of a report about a man named 'Papponi' who was cured of convulsive attacks by change of place. This is Carlo Amoretti (1741–1816), an Italian scholar who wrote on natural philosophy including animal magnetism and dowsing (rhabdomancy).