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A Hieronymus machine is any of the patented radionics devices invented by electrical engineer Thomas Galen Hieronymus (21 November 1895 – 21 February 1988). [1] Hieronymus received a U.S. Patent for his invention in 1949, which was described in the patent application title as a device for "detection of emanations from materials and measurement of the volumes thereof".
In American science fiction of the 1950s and '60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to the study (and employment) of paranormal or psychic phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, telepathy and psychokinesis. [1]
Other notable quack devices in radionics have included the Ionaco and the Hieronymus machine. [11] [12] Some people claim to have the paranormal or parapsychological ability to detect "radiation" within the human body, which they call radiesthesia. According to the theory, all human bodies give off unique or characteristic "radiations" as do ...
The equivalent French term expérience de mort imminente ("experience of imminent death") was proposed by French psychologist and epistemologist Victor Egger as a result of discussions in the 1890s among philosophers and psychologists concerning climbers' stories of the panoramic life review during falls.
The "Hieronymus" in the book is a reference to St. Jerome; in the book's invented history, some of his followers drifted into occult sciences and built the Hieronymus Machine "many centuries ago in a monastery in Spain". [2] Later, though, it was stated to be built by another Hieronymus c. 1000 AD, centuries after the actual St. Jerome. [3]
The January 1919 issue of Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, in which Tausk's article on the influencing machine was first published "On the Origin of the 'Influencing Machine' in Schizophrenia" (German: Über die Entstehung des „Beeinflussungsapparates“ in der Schizophrenie) is an article written by Austrian psychoanalyst Victor Tausk.
Psion, a person with psionic abilities; Psion, a 1982 novel by Joan D. Vinge; Rhon psions, or Ruby psions, a fictional group of empaths and telepaths in the novel series Saga of the Skolian Empire; Psion (想子), a fictional non-physical particle and psychic phenomenon, the essence of magic in the web novel series The Irregular at Magic High ...
Hieronymus, in English pronounced / h aɪ ˈ r ɒ n ɪ m ə s / or / h ə ˈ r ɒ n ɪ m ə s /, is the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnymos), meaning "with a sacred name".