Nobody really believes that the shape of our heads are a window into our personalities anymore. This idea, known as "phrenonolgy", was developed by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796 and ...

These creepy miniature heads — 60 in all — are a fascinating relic of a short-lived fad in the 18th century called phrenology. They’re currently housed at the Science Museum in London. Phrenology was ...

The Roots of Phrenology To understand the American head reading craze, we must first go back to mid-1790s Vienna, where Dr. Franz Joseph Gall began to lecture on his new science of man. Unlike ...

Hundreds of reproduction phrenology heads are sold online, although few people understand what the word phrenology means. In 1796, a German physician, Franz Joseph Gall, began teaching a discipline he ...

Hundreds of reproduction phrenology heads are sold online, although few understand what the word phrenology means. It was not a medical theory or a science, but rather a way to “determine” the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But despite the fact that it has fallen into disrepute, phrenology as a science has never really been subjected to rigorous, ...

Having a phrenological "head reading" was one of the most significant fads of the nineteenth century—a means for better knowing oneself and a guide for self-improvement. Across the country, scores of ...