A two-headed snake. Les Belles Images. November 21, 1912. From a French weekly newspaper for children.
A treatise on electricity and magnetism
by Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879
"Tell me, how do I steady my gaze / when everything I want is motion?"- Paige Lewis, from “All Constellations are Organisms,” published in DIAGRAM (via lifeinpoetry)
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Chart of the Hand, 1898⠀
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One of the many fantastic illustrations to be found in Dr Alesha Sivartha’s enigmatic 1898 work titled The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man. In the book Sivartha — thought to be the pen name for an Arthur E. Merton — expounds his curious mix of theosophy and phrenology, a teaching which apparently attracted the attention of Mark Twain among others. Obsessed with the magical properties of the number 12, in each of Sivartha’s brain “maps” he breaks down the grey matter into 12 different sections, as well as looking at other parts of the body such as hands and the nervous system as a whole.⠀
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Großglockner Hochalpenstraße, Heiligenblut, Austria 2018.
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Mystical wheel. Cérémonies Et Coutumes Religieuses De Tous Les Peuples Du Monde. 1783.
Leptophis liocerus. Tropical Tree Snake. Science Gossip. 1901.