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Phrenology II, Electric Boogaloo

Posted in Antiquated, interesting, tagged , on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Part II on Phrenology brings us to A Phrenological Dictionary of 19th Century Americans, 1982 (WorldCat), and The Phrenological Journal, Vols. 43-44, 1866-67 (WorldCat). Phrenological Journal was a crazy magazine that had all kinds of random stuff in it. The only things phrenological were the individual case studies and the “teachings” on morality. The Dictionary [...]

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You were always on mind, you were always on my mind

Posted in Antiquated, tagged , , on September 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Part one of a two part series on Phrenology. The idea came to me while skimming the Darwin text a few weeks back. I’ve got four books today and two more for the next post: A System of Phrenology, George Combe, 1843 (WorldCat); Phrenology, J.G. Spurzheim, 1834 (WorldCat); Heads and Faces and How to Read [...]

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