"A striking book of early anthropological images of the Toda and a good example of the Autotype Company's use of collotype (Rye patent)."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 46.

The Study Of A Primitive Tribe In South India.

Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific.

Published in 1832, the book presents a lively portrait of early 19th-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception.

Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.

This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.

Rather than looking upon Gall's "organology" as one of science's great mistakes, this book provides a fresh look at the man and his doctrine.

The theory that the functions of the brain can be localized in the cerebral cortex was introduced in somewhat fantastic form by Gall as organology and by his pupil Spurzheim as phrenology, their joint researches appearing in 1810-19.

The work is not in fact 'translated from the Italian' and the author's name is a pseudonym; authorship is generally attributed to John Trotter, a civil servant of the East India Company in Bengal, 'who (in the year 1825) sunk, at a very ...

"... extensively illustrated with figures evidently taken from death masks of contemporary men of renown: Napoleon, the poisoner William palmer, George Combe himself, etc."--Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2016.