The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky — Augustus J. Pleasonton (1877)

The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky is Augustus J. Pleasonton’s remarkable nineteenth-century treatise on blue light, sunlight, health, growth, and vitality.

Physical edition: The Holographic Pagan Press edition is a handmade softcover book, not a hardcover.

Pleasonton records his experiments and theories concerning the effects of blue glass and blue-spectrum light on plant growth, animal development, disease, and human health. Written before modern photobiology and chromotherapy had taken recognizable form, the book is a striking document from the borderland between experimental science, therapeutic speculation, vitalist theory, and the cultural fascination with colored light.

The 1877 Philadelphia edition expands the subject through reports, testimonials, experimental observations, and correspondence, making it both a primary source in the history of color therapy and one of the most unusual American scientific-therapeutic books of its period.

This text has been prepared by Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press as part of an ongoing effort to recover and circulate overlooked works from the history of metaphysical, scientific, medical, and esoteric thought.

This is a handmade 8.5" × 11" Holographic Pagan Press edition, produced with powder-blue cardstock, a black tape-bound spine, and newly prepared cover artwork centered on sunlight, the blue ray, and organic growth.

Issued here as a first Holographic Pagan Press edition.

Details:
Author: Augustus J. Pleasonton
Title: The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky
Originally published: 1877
Original publisher: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, Philadelphia
Format: Handmade 8.5" × 11" physical book / PDF edition
Binding: Black tape-bound spine
Publisher: Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press
Edition: First Holographic Pagan Press Edition

Collector’s Note

This edition is part of the Holographic Pagan Press archival publishing project, devoted to recovering uncommon and historically important works from metaphysics, alternative healing, occult philosophy, forgotten science, vitalism, color theory, and the borderlands of human inquiry.