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Title
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A System of Phrenology
Creator
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George Combe (author)
J. J. Butler (engraver)
Date
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1844
19.0 x 11.3 cm
BF 870 C72 1844
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The title page of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A System of Phrenology </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">boasts that the volume</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">features “upward of one hundred engravings.” Photography had been discovered by the time the book was published, but the dominant processes of the time</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (the <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3125">daguerreotype</a> and the calotype) did not offer </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">an efficient or practical method of circulating knowledge alongside printed text. </span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The system of </span><a href="https://victorianweb.org/science/phrenology/intro.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">phrenology</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> described in this volume is closely related to the Victorian practice of physiognomy. Described today as pseudosciences, phrenology and </span><a href="https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/physiognomy-the-beautiful-pseudoscience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">physiognomy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> posited that an individual’s exterior features revealed aspects of their character. Later, </span><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301897" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Francis Galton</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> would use photography as a tool to both investigate and circulate physiognomic principles, and Charles Darwin would use photographs to examine <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3145">human emotion</a>. <br /><br />A full scan of this item is available through the <a href="https://archive.org/details/101519023.nlm.nih.gov/page/n4/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet Archive</a>.<br /></span>
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