mythos and pathos

midnight-gallery:

The remains of martyred saints, as photographed by Toby de Silva.

(via beentoseabefore)

book-aesthete:

Brown’s kleurvisioenen met een woord ter aanwijzing en verklaring
J.H. Brown. Leeuwarden, Hugo Suringar, 1866.

Original illustrated green cloth-backed boards, flyleaves with publishers advertisements. With 16 numbered lithographed plates (13 hand-coloured) lithographed by Morriën & Amand, Amsterdam. [8] pp.

Rare first edition of the Dutch translation of J.H. Brown’s Spectropia, or surprising spectral illusions (1864), using the 19th-century knowledge of optics to explain how people see ghosts. A second edition was published ca. 1870.

As described in the (original) introduction: ” To see the spectres, it is only necessary to look steadily at the dot, or asterisk, which is to be found on each of the plates, for about a quarter of a minute,.. Then turning the eyes to the ceiling… of a darkened room (not totally dark), and looking rather steadily at any one point, the spectre will soon being to make its appearance, increasing in intensity, and then gradually vanishing, to reappear and vanish again.”

B-A Note: A translation of the popular Spectropia, which I posted here a few months back. Serendipity is fun!