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Phrenology or craniology (from Ancient Greek φρήν (phrēn) 'mind', and λόγος (logos) 'knowledge') is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps...56 KB (6,697 words) - 17:38, 27 May 2024- 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...31 KB (2,057 words) - 11:12, 10 December 2023
The American Phrenological Journal was a periodical in the United States devoted to the racist pseudoscience of phrenology, a collection of theories correlating...7 KB (793 words) - 00:31, 14 January 2024
Franz Joseph Gall (section Contributions to phrenology)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...16 KB (1,982 words) - 13:55, 1 May 2024
The Edinburgh Phrenological Society was founded in 1820 by George Combe, an Edinburgh lawyer, with his physician brother Andrew Combe. The Edinburgh Society...28 KB (3,229 words) - 01:47, 26 March 2024
Phrenology has been a cultural factor in the Latter Day Saint movement (informally Mormons) since around the time of its founding in 1830. Phrenology...49 KB (5,743 words) - 19:00, 2 December 2023
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...4 KB (330 words) - 03:45, 12 April 2024- 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...2 KB (75 words) - 03:18, 31 May 2024
subject of phrenology. The three were "in large measure" responsible for the mid-19th century popularity of phrenology. The practice of phrenology was frequently...12 KB (1,120 words) - 20:46, 8 February 2024
character, phrenology, was originally considered a science. It influenced psychiatry and early studies into neuroscience. As science advanced, phrenology was...17 KB (1,928 words) - 10:26, 18 May 2024
an office in New York City, and were the recognized leaders in the phrenological, physiological, and hygienic sciences. For half a century, they were...5 KB (557 words) - 17:07, 15 April 2021
Phineas Gage (section Phrenology)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...144 KB (13,879 words) - 04:35, 6 May 2024
With heightened popularity came mounting pressure. The Roots released Phrenology (named after the pseudoscience of the same name) in 2002. Despite not...68 KB (6,465 words) - 02:04, 29 May 2024
Psychograph (redirect from Psychograph (phrenology))Psychographics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The psychograph was a phrenology machine, invented and marketed by Henry C. Lavery in the early part of...3 KB (279 words) - 22:17, 7 March 2022- 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...2 KB (175 words) - 21:37, 28 April 2024
Physiognomy (section Phrenology)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...44 KB (5,073 words) - 22:40, 18 March 2024
John Epps (redirect from Anthropological Society of London (phrenology))Spurzheim through James Simpson. He began to lecture on phrenology in 1827. For Epps, phrenology was integrated with his Baptist Calvinism. With John Elliotson...21 KB (2,256 words) - 01:44, 9 August 2022
Cognitive neuroscience (section Phrenology)publication of phrenology journals and the creation of phrenometers, which measured the bumps on a human subject's head. While phrenology remained a fixture...36 KB (3,842 words) - 15:22, 27 February 2024
George Combe (category Phrenology)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...15 KB (1,706 words) - 22:10, 28 May 2024
Robert Hanham Collyer (section Phrenology)(1787-1859), although details of his early life are hazy. He studied phrenology under Johann Gaspar Spurzheim in Paris; and, then, attended classes at...39 KB (3,902 words) - 11:22, 14 April 2024
- phreno- + -loger phrenologer (plural phrenologers) A phrenologist. “phrenologer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. &