Physico-physiological researches on the dynamics of magnetism, electricity, heat, light, crystallization, and chemism, in their relations to vital force
Karl von Reichenbach's 1851 treatise on "od" force, magnetism and animal magnetism, translated and edited by John Ashburner for an American readership and issued in New York and Boston. The plates are line graphs of sensitives' hand temperatures and sensations plotted against hours from dawn to midnight, white curves cut across dense engraved grids with letterpress time labels above.























