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Johann Gaspar Spurzheim: The St. Paul of Phrenology (2020)

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Franz Joseph Gall’s wayward discipline Johann Gaspar Spurzheim greatly modified Gall’s original system and introduced it to the English-speaking world. Through an active program of itinerant lecturing, publishing and converting disciplines, Spurzheim made phrenology. He also developed a philosophy of following the laws of nature that was adopted and further promoted by his disciple, George Combe. Combe’s book The Constitution of Man (1828) became one of the best-selling works of its genre in the nineteenth century. Thus Spurzheim, never particularly original, exercised an enormous influence on nineteenth-century culture.

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Article Paul Eling; Stanley Finger (2020) Gall and Phrenology: New perspectives. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (pp. 1-4). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Eling, Paul
Finger, Stanley
Whitaker, Harry A.
van Wyhe, John
Packham, Ellen
Beierholm, Simon
Concepts
Phrenology
Psychology
Neurosciences
Brain localization
Brain
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
Germany
France
Great Britain
Netherlands
Denmark
Vilnius (Lithuania or Poland)
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