Measuring Prejudice: Race Sciences of the 18-19th CenturiesMain MenuMeasuring PrejudiceScientific Racism of the 18th and 19th CenturiesIntroductionTimeline of Racial ScienceTimeline of the History of Scientific RacismPhysiognomyThe Study of Facial Features as a PseudoscienceCraniometryPhrenologyDifferences in Shape and Size of the Skull to Indicate CharacterResources and Citationslinks and sources used in researchSophia Seiberthe2a02a11e04e0c4ec966558f4cf01bfcc2ffeb82Jeremy Yoshiokaa946e0a62ab5df5e651e19feec0ecb4593c7053cDaniel smithefa17be3be40b3a1445277b49cf3ab9e127857ce
F. J. Gall is known as the father of what had become to be the scientific class of Phrenology. Gall began a physician studying the shapes of skulls, but laid the foundation of linking the brain to characteristics of a human's mental order. He stated in his works that the morality, sentimentality, etc. of a man were housed in the brain and organized in ways which he could decipher by studying the shape and morphology of the skull. These beliefs, or facts, to Gall, became the basic laws of Phrenology. Spurzheim, Gall's fellow collaborator and dedicated pupil, spent his years in the field studying the human skull to solidify the link between the human brain and one's character and temperament, spreading these ideas to the UK and America.
