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The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects / by George Combe.

George Combe, Glasgow University Library · 1860 · Edinburgh : MacLachlan and Stewart ; London : Longman & Co. : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1860. · 5 pictures

George Combe's 1860 Edinburgh and London treatise on phrenology, The Constitution of Man, is a mid-nineteenth-century popular science book for general readers that presents skull and head diagrams. The pictures show profile and rear views of heads with numbered cranial zones, plus a bald man in a high collar, so a designer might draw on their clean line work and the formal Victorian diagram style of numbered measurement lines.

Phrenology

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