Article ID: CBB000052004

The soul and the brain between anatomy and Naturphilosophie in the early 19th century (1992)

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Description “In analysing the contemporary reception of Soemmerring and Gall, I will show that the discussion about localizing the organ of the soul and different mental propensities and talents took place on two different levels--of philosophy and of anatomical methodology ... I will argue that Soemmerring and Gall did not agree on the first, but concurred perfectly on the second ...”


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Authors & Contributors
Mann, Gunter
Dumont, Franz
Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von
Eling, Paul
Wenzel, Manfred
Oehler-Klein, Sigrid
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Publishers
Fischer
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
Schwabe
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
Concepts
Phrenology
Science and culture
Brain localization
Personality; character
Science
Human physiology
People
Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von
Gall, Franz Joseph
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar
Reil, Johann Christian
Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
Netherlands
Germany
France
Switzerland
Denmark
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