Publisher's Synopsis
Physiognomonie et phrénologie rendues intelligibles pour tout le monde explores the once-popular pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology. This 1869 French-language work, drawing upon the ideas of Johann Caspar Lavater and Franz Joseph Gall, seeks to make these subjects accessible to a broad audience. The book delves into the supposed connections between facial features, skull shapes, and moral character. Authored by A. Ysabeau, the book provides an exposition of moral sense as understood through these controversial disciplines.
While these fields are now largely discredited, this book provides valuable insights into the intellectual climate of the 19th century and the historical development of ideas about human nature and the relationship between the physical and the psychological.
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