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Outlines of phrenology / by the late J.G. Spurzheim.

Johann Spurzheim, Glasgow University Library · 1844 · Glasgow : Published by J. & G. Goyder, 1844. · 25 pictures

Outlines of phrenology by the late J.G. Spurzheim, published in Glasgow in 1844 by J. & G. Goyder, is a pocket-sized treatise on the pseudoscience of skull-reading, drawn from Glasgow University Library's copy and aimed at students and general readers. Its numbered profile heads show bald crowns, wigs, and differing forehead and brow shapes, offering a designer clean, schematic line-drawn head silhouettes with hatched shading suited to diagrammatic or vintage science-chart work.

Phrenology

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