Occult Literature
D’Odiardi’s Thought-Photography and Cerebral-Force Charts
Two circular charts carry numbered traces and legends explaining the start and stop of a registering needle. The heading calls them d’Odiardi’s Thought-Photography and Register of Cerebral Force. The examples name Mr Lionel Phillips, 17 February 1897, and the Reverend Russell Wakefield, 27 February 1897. Reproduced in Cheiro’s book, they document historical claims about recording thought; the diagrams are neither planetary orbits nor validated maps of brain activity.
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Illustrator not identified. "D’Odiardi’s Thought-Photography and Cerebral-Force Charts" [editorial title]. In Cheiro’s Language of the Hand, Cheiro (William John Warner). Fifteenth edition; undated supplied scan; 1897 and 1900 copyright statements retained, undated edition, Nichols & Co.; Rand, McNally & Co.. Source scan leaf 227. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0075-0227
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Illustrator not identified. D’Odiardi’s Thought-Photography and Cerebral-Force Charts. Cheiro’s Language of the Hand. Scan leaf 227. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0075-0227