We know where our heart resides, but what’s the seat of our mind?
Phrenology was a Victorian “science,” which held that the brain was the organ of the mind and that its various facets were represented on our skull in the form of “bumps” and “grooves.” Each of these was proportional to a person’s propensities and proclivities.
It grew out of the research of a German doctor named Franz Gall, who located 37 such “mental and moral organs.”
A phrenologist would, therefore, determine an individual’s character simply by examining the shape of their head. He would run his fingers over its ridges and depressions and sometimes employ a craniometer (a version of a caliper) to measure the diameter of the head.
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