“The most wonderful of all living structures is the human brain.”
This was Alesha Sivartha’s philosophical and scientific proposition in a book he wrote and illustrated, called The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man.Published in 1898, the 152-page abridgment contains a collection of peculiar, hand-drawn brain maps that reveal Sivartha’s even more peculiar interpretation of the human brain’s anatomy. As an avid phrenologist, Sivartha sectioned the brain into a series of compartments, each responsible for certain traits and interests, like religion, intellect, and social status.
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“He was fixated with the number 12. In each map he breaks down the brain into 12 different orifices […] He also believed that there were only 12 kinds of people—your personality was determined by the month in which you were born.”
As an Aquarius and an Air Sign, I find this hard to believe.