Tamsa's Blog: Spectropia , Visual art, pendemic

The pendemic of Covid19 (corona virus) is plagued More than 190 countries in the world, crucially facing complete Lock downs and curfews in and all ( in India) . I get the ample time to study various aspects of History and some aspects of modernist people's thinking, mindset, faith etc. History is hard to read but intresting to connect the dots on, today's situation.

My hypothesis is that this book is probably written at a time when there are some unnecessary fears and superstitions is Incapsulated in the present.
To prevent such Misguesses, scientists of the time may have tried to prove the truth by scientific evidence.

Science is often disguised as a religious belief, or the value of scientific principles and results is considered less credible than religious beliefs

The limitation of my blog is that this book is written in accordance with many scientific discoveries and principles. Which seeks to remove the psyche of people through accurate results

Simultaneously, they tried to Persuades importance of science at that time by imitating the reliability and accuracy of scientific approaches.

I've been reading for some time ,now that people have become more obsessed with superstitions, beliefs, and Incognizable with the importance of scientists and Doctors. Let see some of glimpse of guidance shared by The Honorable Dean of English department MKBU Prof. Dilip Barad sir.

The world is ever divided into the superstitious and the enlightened, and while the enlightened have shown the clear trend of being on the rise, it not always so. Ghosts and horoscopes and good-luck charms abound, and poindexterish explanations of why they are all poppycock merely tend to make one an un-adored party pooper—even though this is certainly the correct view.

There’s a tendency to consign all of pre-modernity to the superstitious (one might say “religious”) camp, but that really isn’t the case. Mathematicians and scientists have existed for the entirety of recorded history, which must be the case since language and writing technologies are products of the experimental mindset. The Enlightenment was a turning point, as rationality was increasingly given a central place in the arrangement of social affairs, and even if irreligious skeptics were (and are) outnumbered, you could still always count on finding someone in the vicinity willing to scoff at the hocus-pocus of superstition.

In the 19th century, some scholars were able to use interest in the paranormal to undermine its premises entirely. One such person was J.H. Brown, who published a book in New York City under the title Spectropia; or, Surprising spectral illusions showing ghosts everywhere and of any colour in 1864. The book was popular enough to merit a print run in London in 1865 and a Dutch edition in 1866.

Brown was distressed by an increased public interest in spiritualism,[7] something which he deemed a "mental epidemic."[8] By offering a scientific explanation on the properties of light, color, and the structure of the eyes,[2] he states in the section "Popular and Scientific description" that the purpose in writing Spectropia was to bring forth "the extinction of the superstitious belief that apparitions are actual spirits, by showing some of the ways our senses may be deceived"

While I started reading this book I was highly impressed with the beginning of the book, so I like to share such few amazing lines here,

“It is a curious fact that, in this age of scientific research, the absurd follies of spiritualism should find an increase of supporters; but mental epidemics seem at certain seasons to affect our minds, and of the oldest of those moral afflictions–witchcraft–is once more prevalent in this nineteenth century, under the contemptible forms of spirit-wrapping and table-turning…One thing we hope in some measure to further in the following pages, is the extinction of the superstitious belief that apparitions are actual spirits, by showing some of the many ways in which our senses may be deceived, and that, in fact, no so-called ghost has ever appeared…”

One of the most interesting point of study is Visual Art, the author who introduced this art in the nineteenth century, showed art as a testament to his scientific provenance.

The book published is complete with a complete scientific approach, with very deep evidence of every superstition and superstition. For many years this book has not been taken into consideration. To illustrate this book in conjunction with the time of this epidemic, I just want to present an idea that science should be trusted, rather than cooperate to avoid the hardship of participating.

Nowadays, when people see this type of visual art they believe it as reliable information.

As the ghosts in the book and the corona virus nowadays are killing millions of people today, this fear may be trying to destroy the pandemic in religious ways rather than seeking caution and scientific advice.

Without any scientific evidence, sharing in social media on social media is dangerous.

No one can save the world trapped in today's blows except scientists and doctors. To follow the rules, precautions taken by doctors and scientists, to reduce the fear of the people and to rely on any other subject to cope with this epidemic and get rid of it.

It is our duty to take timely care for our country, family and even ourselves, to understand the rules, health tips, this duty should not be adopted by other values in the path of fear and misery.