Author: J. DE VILLE (Phrenologist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Outlines of Phrenology, as an accompaniment to the phrenological bust
Author: J. DE VILLE (Phrenologist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Outlines of Phrenology
Author: J. De VillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement
Author: Paul ElingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000388425
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, settled in Paris in 1807. Gall's ideas had many supporters but were controversial and unsettling to others. In particular, the opposition ridiculed his belief that skull features reflect the growth of specific, underlying cortical organs, and hence correlate with personality traits (i.e., his ‘bumpology’). Gall’s fundamental ideas about the mind and organization of the brain were debated across the globe, and they also began to be exploited by unscrupulous businessmen, ‘professors’ who ‘read skulls’ for a living. But, as some historians have shown, his ideas about mind, brain and behavior led to the modern neurosciences. The chapters collected in this volume provide new insights into Gall’s thinking and what Spurzheim did, and the faddish movement called ‘phrenology’, which originated as a science of humankind but became a popular source of entertainment. All chapters were originally published in various issues of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
Blake and Conflict
Author: S. HaggartyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230584284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'. Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.
Forest and Other Gleanings
Author: Catherine Parr Strickland TraillPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776603914
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Forest and other Gleanings reclaims for the contemporary reader a number of stories and sketches written by Catharine Parr Traill after her emigration to Canada in 1832. While most pieces collected here appeared in magazines in Britain, the United States, and Canada, a few have been drawn from archival holdings and make their first appearance here. This collection seeks, as it were, to complete her aspirations and to offer readers interested in Traill and 19th-century Upper Canada a "gleaning" of her better sketches and stories.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
Author: Frances LarsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871404958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A “wide-ranging and thoughtful” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and skulls. The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head’s preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting. So explains anthropologist Frances Larson in this fascinating history of decapitated human heads. From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanese home to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined head of Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues, from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores our macabre fixation with severed heads.
Catalogue of the Books and Maps in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Asiatic Society of Bengal. Oriental LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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