Phrenology bust

Phrenology bust by L.N. Fowler, in front view. Phrenology was a popular pseudoscience of thenineteenth century. The basis for the theory layin a misplaced belief that a person's characterand mental faculties effected the shape of theirhead. It was thought that this was because theskull became modified over the differentfunctional areas of the cortex of the brain.Practitioners of the technique claimed that theycould 'read' a person, that is assess theirpersonality, by feeling the bumps on their head.In this bust, a wide range of personality traitsare mapped across the various bones that comprisethe skull.

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