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Fowler's practical phrenology : giving a concise elementary view on phrenology; presenting some new and important remarks on the temperaments / as given by O.S. Fowler.

Orson S. Fowler, Emory University. General Libraries · 1850 · New York : Fowlers and Wells, 1850. · 9 pictures

Fowler's Practical Phrenology is an 1850 New York treatise by Orson S. Fowler, published by Fowlers and Wells, that explains phrenology and the temperaments to general readers. Its pictures are engraved plates of heads and skulls, with numbered cranial zones, profile outlines, and comparative skull shapes, offering a designer clear examples of the 19th-century scientific diagram style and its labeled, schematic layouts.

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