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Physico-physiological researches on the dynamics of magnetism, electricity, heat, light, crystallization, and chemism, in their relations to vital force / by Baron Charles Von Reichenbach; with the addition of a preface and critical notes by John Ashburner.

Carl Reichenbach, Ashburner, John (Translator), Royal College of Physicians, London · 1850 · London : Hippolyte Bailliere, 1850. · 37 pictures

This is a 1850 London treatise by Baron Carl von Reichenbach, translated with notes by John Ashburner, on magnetism, electricity, heat, light and vital force, aimed at physicians and natural philosophers. Its pictures are plain white-on-black hourly line charts with numbered time axes and wavy traces, showing sensitive subjects' readings over a day, which a designer could borrow as minimal data-graphic or oscilloscope-style backgrounds.

Mesmerism · Magnetism · Electricity · Heat · Light · Vital force · Chemistry

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