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''Lo!'' was the third published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1931). In it he details a wide range of unusual phenomena. In the final chapter of the book he proposes a new cosmology that the earth is stationary in space and surrounded by a solid shell which is (in the book's final words) ".. not unthinkably far away." == 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 was explored in his first book, ''The Book of the Damned''. Fort is widely credited to have coined the now-popular term teleportation in this book, and here he ties 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 astronomers to make positivistic, overly precise, and premature announcements of celestial events and discoveries. Fort portrays them as quack prophets, sententiously pointing towards the skies and saying "Lo!" (hence the book's title)—inaccurately, as events turn out. ''Lo!'' is arguably Fort's most popular book, perhaps due to the fact that the book deals with an extremely wide and diverse range of phenomena (as can be seen below), and Fort by then had a clear theorem. His book is divided into two sections: the first on the above phenomena; the second, on his above-mentioned attacks on 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''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lo!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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