Lo!
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| Author | Charles Hoy Fort | |
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| Language | English | |
| Genre | Paranormal | |
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Publication date | 1931 | |
| Media type | Print ( LC Class Q173 .F715 2004 | |
| Preceded by | New Lands | |
| Followed by | Wild Talents | |
Lo! is the third published
Overview
Of Fort's four books, this volume deals most frequently and scathingly with astronomy (continuing from his previous book New Lands). The book also deals extensively with other subjects, including paranormal phenomena (see parapsychology), which were explored in his first book, The Book of the Damned.
In Lo!, Fort coined the now-popular term "teleportation".[2] He also tied his previous statements on what he referred to as the Super-Sargasso Sea into his beliefs on teleportation. He would later expand this theory to include purported mental and psychic phenomena in his fourth and final book, Wild Talents.
It takes its derisive title from what he regarded as the tendency of
Lo! has been described as Fort's "most accessible, most readable book".[3] It is divided into two sections: the first on the above phenomena; the second, on his attacks on the contemporary astronomy. The reason for this is that Fort had been working on a follow-up to The Book of the Damned, but he scrapped the idea and incorporated many of the subjects into this one.
Lo! is used extensively in Blue Balliett's book Chasing Vermeer.[4]
Part One: Teleportation
Fort establishes his
Fort starts the book largely where he left off in
Fort believed that all of these anomalous phenomena can be explained by his teleportation theory—though he later apparently retracts this theory to an extent in his final book, Wild Talents.
Part Two: Astronomy
Fort was sceptical of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity and the claim that these could be confirmed by a transit of the Sun. He was sceptical of the accuracy of the mathematics and the observations involved, and pointed out seeming contradictions and anomalies in scientists' statements to the press.
Publication
Lo! was pubiished in February 1931. It received positive reviews in both the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune[5] and quickly went into a third printing.[6]
Availability
The book was re-released in a paperback version in the 1990s,[7] and is also included in The Complete Works Of Charles Fort with Fort's other paranormal writings.[8]
See also
External links
- Edited and Annotated Online Version
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120203115215/http://www.forteans.com/ The homepage of the INFO)