DER SENSITIVE MENSCH (2 vols) WER IST SENSITIV, WER NICHT? at 70 pages, is bound at back of vol 2 (both in German) by Reichenbach, Karl Freiberrn - 1854-5

Vienna: Wilheim Barumuller. VG set. Contemporary binding in half brown morocco, brown boards. 1854-5. 1at esitions.. Hardcover.. VG set. Contemporary binding in half brown morocco, brown cloth boards, gilt lettered spine. Tight. 22x14cm, 838,758,70pp. . Spines with minor wear, sunned boards. Light foxing throughout. From the library of Robert Dale Owen who SIGNS BOTH tps. He also annotated both feps and added a tipped in page of more notes. Owen & his father founded the utopian community New Harmony. He was a reformer, US congressman and, later in life, a believer in spiritualism. In congress he sponsored the bill that established the Smithsonian Insitution. "The Sensitive Man" is rare, "Who Is Sensitive" rarer still and has never been translated into English. Reichenbach (1788-1869) is one of 5,000 in Scribner's 1970s 16 vol "Dictionary of Scientific Biography" (DSB). It says he was a successful industrialist and chemist who after 1844 became obsessed with proving the existence of paranormal sensitivities and of a universal force called Od. His proofs were never accepted by the larger academic community. This dealer suspects the importance of these books lies in their recording how a reputable person got it wrong. And he was reputable. Gustav Fechner, (1801-87), (also in DSB); psychologist, philosopher, physicist; was a founder of modern experimental psychology. He wrote of Reichenbach in "Memories of the Last Days of the Odic Theory": ".. his work on psychic phenomena has been so exhaustive, so scientifically conducted, and recorded with such patient precision ...". Caveat: Much of this is this dealer's personal interpretation and summary of material obtained from Wikipedia. .