FactGrid:Harmonia Universalis

(Field of Research:Q172203) The Harmonia Universalis Research Base aims to build the mesmerist network in all its diversity and to analyse its integration into the social space on the eve of the French Revolution, emphasising its links with the medical profession and other forms of sociability, in particular learned and Masonic.

Mesmerism: The Operator Inducing a Hypnotic Trance, engraving after Dodd, 1794. Plate from Ebenezer Sibly's book, A Key to Physic, 1794.

The project, led by Bruno Belhoste and David Riccardo Armando, is mainly supported by the Hastec labex and the IHMC, with the participation of CARE (CRH UMR 8558) and the ISPF (CNR). It benefits from the collaboration of several researchers, including Claire Gantet and Isabelle Havelange, and is open to all those interested in the subject.

A data set is already available in the form of prosopographic sheets on the original Harmonia universalis Database. The database is being installed on FactGrid where it should be available from December 2020.

• Mapview of the societies of harmony

• All the members of the Society of Universal Harmony of Paris (Société de l'harmonie universelle)
• All the members of the Society of Harmony of Strasbourg (Société harmonique des amis réunis)
• All the members of the Society of Harmony of Bordeaux (Société de l'harmonie de Bordeaux)
• All the members of the Society of Harmony of Saint-Domingue (Société de l'harmonie de Saint-Domingue)
• All the members of the Society of Harmony of Malta (Société de l'harmonie de Malte)
• Magnetizers and their patients
• All the people related to the Harmonia Universalis project on FactGrid