Phrenology or craniology (from Ancient Greek φρήν (phrēn) 'mind', and λόγος (logos) 'knowledge') is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps...

Phrenology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band the Roots, released on November 26, 2002, by MCA Records. Recording sessions for the album...

The American Phrenological Journal was a periodical in the United States devoted to the racist pseudoscience of phrenology, a collection of theories correlating...

functions in the brain. Claimed as the founder of the pseudoscience of phrenology, Gall was an early and important researcher in his fields. His contributions...

The Edinburgh Phrenological Society was founded in 1820 by George Combe, an Edinburgh lawyer, with his physician brother Andrew Combe. The Edinburgh Society...

Phrenology has been a cultural factor in the Latter Day Saint movement (informally Mormons) since around the time of its founding in 1830. Phrenology...

1832) was a German physician who became one of the chief proponents of phrenology, which was developed c. 1800 by Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828). Spurzheim...

childhood to the date of [his] injury".[H]: 4  (In the pseudoscience of phrenology, which was then just ending its vogue, nervo-bilious denoted an unusual...

Scottish lawyer and a spokesman of the phrenological movement for over 20 years. He founded the Edinburgh Phrenological Society in 1820 and wrote The Constitution...

Psychographics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The psychograph was a phrenology machine, invented and marketed by Henry C. Lavery in the early part of...

With the Aid of Phrenology is a lost 1913 short silent film comedy directed by Edward Dillon and starring Charles Murray. It was produced by the Biograph...

With heightened popularity came mounting pressure. The Roots released Phrenology (named after the pseudoscience of the same name) in 2002. Despite not...

an office in New York City, and were the recognized leaders in the phrenological, physiological, and hygienic sciences. For half a century, they were...

subject of phrenology. The three were "in large measure" responsible for the mid-19th century popularity of phrenology. The practice of phrenology was frequently...

The Boston Phrenological Society was formed in 1832 upon the death of a prominent continental phrenologist, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim. Spurzheim was an...

Spurzheim through James Simpson. He began to lecture on phrenology in 1827. For Epps, phrenology was integrated with his Baptist Calvinism. With John Elliotson...

physiognomy figures prominently in the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Phrenology, a form of physiognomy, measures the bumps on the skull in order to determine...

(1787-1859), although details of his early life are hazy. He studied phrenology under Johann Gaspar Spurzheim in Paris; and, then, attended classes at...

phrenology. Phrenology maintains that an individual's character can be divined from the shape of his head as well as the sizes of the phrenological organs...

publication of phrenology journals and the creation of phrenometers, which measured the bumps on a human subject's head. While phrenology remained a fixture...

1807 – 27 June 1860) was an English writer, reformer and advocate for phrenology, temperance and vegetarianism. Frederick Towgood was born on 5 October...

may refer to: Benevolent (band) Benevolence (phrenology), a faculty in the discredited theory of phrenology "Benevolent" (song), a song by Tory Lanez Benevolence...

character, phrenology, was originally considered a science. It influenced psychiatry and early studies into neuroscience. As science advanced, phrenology was...

of phrenological thinking, and his brother, Andrew Combe (1797–1847), who was later appointed a physician to Queen Victoria, wrote a phrenological treatise...

classification system Female body shape Enterotype Habitus (disambiguation) Phrenology Physiognomy This article includes a list of related items that share the...

Seed (2.0)" is the second single by The Roots from their fifth album Phrenology (2002). The track, which features Cody Chesnutt on the guitar and vocals...

of anthropometry, measurement of the human body. It is distinct from phrenology, the pseudoscience that tried to link personality and character to head...

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popularizing the pseudoscience of Phrenology. Combe argues that the human mind is best understood through phrenology, and that the relative size of the...