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[Doug Millison]

The History of Phrenology on the Web
http://www.jmvanwyhe.freeserve.co.uk/

Popular in early nineteenth-century Europe (especially in Britain),
and later in America, phrenology was the controversial belief that
one could determine the character and intellectual traits of a person
by examining the shape and contours of the skull ("reading the bumps
on your head"). Created and maintained by John van Wyhe of Cambridge
University, this site claims to be "the largest and most
comprehensive website for the history of phrenology." Contents
include the full text of several phrenological works, phrenology
images, a brief introduction and timeline, some contemporary
criticism, and a critical bibliography. Links to other online texts
and related sites are also provided. Despite some poor choices of
background and text color that make portions of the site difficult to
read, this site is a good resource for historians and general users
interested in what its practitioners called, "the only true science
of mind." [MD]

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