Download or read book The London Phrenological Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London Phrenological Society Established March 31 1824 written by London Phrenological Society and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Further Reflection written by Jonathan Miller and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the month of his 80th birthday, this selection gives an idea of the depth and variety of Jonathan Miller's talents and preoccupations. Actor, doctor, TV presenter, film director, opera director, sculptor - Miller's careers cover a vast range. He is also a gifted and insightful writer, but his writings have been scattered across a series of books and articles over the last sixty years. Each extract has an introduction by Miller, setting it in the context of his interests in the arts and sciences. The essays range from Beyond the Fringe to The Afterlife of Art; the Kennedy Assassination to Lennie Bruce; The Body in Question to Camouflage; Schooldays to Mesmerism.
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The dome of thought written by William Hughes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle, the book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public’s understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of defining a person’s character by way of the bumps on their skull. Highly relevant to the study of the many authors – Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them – whose fiction was informed by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.
Download or read book The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class 1792 1850 written by A. Twells and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.
Download or read book The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science written by Roger Cooter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.
Download or read book Statistics of Phrenology written by Hewett Cottrell Watson and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England). and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet written by Signet Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet In Four Parts with a General Index Rules and Regulations for the Library Etc written by Society of Writers to the Signet (EDINBURGH). Library and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet in Four Parts written by Thomas M. Shiells and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
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Download or read book Conquest of Mind written by David de Giustino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the reception and diffusion of phrenology in Britain, its usefulness to various professions, and its challenge to traditional religion. The second part considers the application of phrenology in two separate social movements: prison reform and national education. This title will be of interest to students of history and philosophy.
Download or read book Beauty and the Brain written by Rachel E. Walker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.
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