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A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions. Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), [1] gravesites, [2] malign "earth vibrations" [3] and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus.
Patrick Blackett's work on the Dowding system would form the basis of the field of mathematics known as operations research. Dowding recognized that the main problem was not technical but too many sources of information, none of them with complete coverage, and none able to report useful information to the fighters on their own.
William Dowsing was born in Laxfield, Suffolk, the son of Wollfran and Johane Dowsing of that place. [2] [4] [5] In August 1643 Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester appointed Dowsing provost-marshal of the armies of the Eastern Association (Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire), responsible for supplies and administration.
divining → see dowsing; djubed [citation needed] → see scrying; dōbutsu uranai: by animal horoscope (Japanese dōbutsu, ' animal ' + uranai, ' prognostication ') domino divination → see cleromancy; dowsing (also divining, water witching): by a divining rod (of unknown origin) dracomancy / ˈ d r æ k oʊ m æ n s i /: by dragons (Greek ...
The Inner Dowsing Bank is a spawning and nursery ground for commercially important fish such as the sand eel and the Atlantic herring and is a feeding ground for lemon sole, European plaice, common lobster and the commercially exploitable pink shrimp. [1] Around the Outer Dowsing area commercially important fish include whiting, dab, sprat ...
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Rhabdomancy is a divination technique which involves the use of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like.. One method of rhabdomancy was setting a number of staffs on end and observing where they fall, to divine the direction one should travel, or to find answers to certain questions.
Dowsing is a method of divination that attempts to locate ground water or other buried materials. Dowsing may also refer to: William Dowsing (1596–1668), English Puritan and iconoclast; Dowsing (band), an American emo band; Dowsing (horse) (1984–1993), American Thoroughbred racehorse; Dowse may refer to: Dowse (surname)