George Combe, author of The Constitution of Man, defended this study against Sir William Hamilton after the latter attacked it in 1826-27 in Edinburgh.
Orson Squire Fowler, the primary popularizer of the octagon house, was an important proponent of this discipline in America. George Combe, author of The Constitution of Man, defended this study against Sir William Hamilton after the latter attacked it in 1826-27 in Edinburgh. FÃ©lix Voisin founded a school in France that applied four separate curricula based on classifications made using this discipline. Paul Bouts combined this discipline with graphology and (*) personality typology to create psychognomy. This discipline was influential on Cesare Lombroso's theory of atavism and it could purportedly be used to identify criminals with only the use of calipers. For 10 points, what was this pseudoscientific discipline that claimed that the mind and personality were expressed through the shape and size of the skull?
Orson Squire Fowler, the primary popularizer of the octagon house, was an important proponent of this discipline in America.
phrenology