Monday, 23. May 2005
Phrenology - Phrenologie

Phrenology was a science of character divination, faculty psychology, theory of brain and what the 19th-century phrenologists called "the only true science of mind." Phrenology came from the theories of the idiosyncratic Viennese physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828).

The History of Phrenology by Dr John van Wyhe (English).

Phrenology and the Fine Arts at The Boston College Fine Arts Department. Draws on Charles Colbert's book, A Measure of Perfection, Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America (1997). Nice collection of American phrenological images from S. Wells. (English)

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An Exhibition on Phrenology: Reading Heads & Ruling Passions by the Macleay Museum. Very good overview. (English)

The Phrenology Page by a modern believer in phrenology, Peter Van den Bossche, Ph.D. (English)

Gute deutsche Seiten zu diesem Thema sind rar.

Hier eine kurze Übersicht: Phrenologie - oder die Lehre des Geistes und seinen Organen von Edda Affeldt. (German)

Lesenswerter Artikel von der Zeitschrift FACTS: Die Beulen der Elite (German)
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