Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].
George Combe's 1850 Edinburgh treatise Elements of Phrenology, a printed textbook explaining the theory that skull shape reveals mental faculties, written for general readers and students. Its pictures are engraved profiles, skull diagrams and cranial maps with numbered organ locations, useful to designers wanting diagrammatic anatomy, labelled schematic layouts and Victorian scientific line drawing.
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