Phrenology, the First Science of Man
Title | Phrenology, the First Science of Man PDF eBook |
Author | David Turnbull |
Publisher | Deakin University Press |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
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Produced for unit HUW209 (Nature and human nature) offered by the School of Humanities in Deakin University's Open Campus Program.
Materials of the Mind
Title | Materials of the Mind PDF eBook |
Author | James Poskett |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2022-02-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226820645 |
Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.
Phrenology consistent with science and revelation
Title | Phrenology consistent with science and revelation PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Cowan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | Phrenology |
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Lectures on Man
Title | Lectures on Man PDF eBook |
Author | L. N. Fowler |
Publisher | Literary Licensing, LLC |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2014-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781497819221 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.
Crania Americana
Title | Crania Americana PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel George Morton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1840 |
Genre | Broadsides |
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Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Title | Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism PDF eBook |
Author | John van Wyhe |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 435 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351911295 |
Through a reassessment of phrenology, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism sheds light on all kinds of works in Victorian Britain and America which have previously been unnoticed or were simply referred to with a vague 'naturalism of the times' explanation. It is often assumed that the scientific naturalism familiar in late nineteenth century writers such as T.H. Huxley and John Tyndall are the effects of a 'Darwinian revolution' unleashed in 1859 on an unsuspecting world following the publication of The Origin of Species. Yet it can be misleading to view Darwin's work in isolation, without locating it in the context of a well established and vigorous debate concerning scientific naturalism. Throughout the nineteenth century intellectuals and societies had been discussing the relationship between nature and man, and the scientific and religious implications thereof. At the forefront of these debates were the advocates of phrenology, who sought to apply their theories to a wide range of subjects, from medicine and the treatment of the insane, to education, theology and even economic theories. Showing how ideas about naturalism and the doctrine of natural laws were born in the early phrenology controversies in the 1820s, this book charts the spread of such views. It argues that one book in particular, The Constitution of Man in Relation to External Objects (1828) by George Combe, had an enormous influence on scientific thinking and the popularity of the 'naturalistic movement'. The Constitution was one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century, being published continuously from 1828 to 1899, and selling more than 350,000 copies throughout the world, many times more than Dawin's The Origin of Species. By restoring Combe and his work to centre stage it provides modern scholars with a more accurate picture of the Victorians' view of their place in Nature.
The Practical Phrenologist
Title | The Practical Phrenologist PDF eBook |
Author | Orson Squire Fowler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Phrenology |
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To teach learners these organic conditions which indicate character, is the first object of this manual. And to render it accessible to all, it condenses facts and conditions, rather than elaborates arguments, - because to expound Phrenology is its highest proof, - states laws and results, and leaves them upon their naked merits; embodies recent discoveries, and crowds into the fewest words and pages just what learners most need to know, and hence requires to be studied rather than merely read. To record character is its second object.