Work
Around 1800, Gall developed "cranioscopy", a method to determine the personality and development of mental and moral faculties on the basis of the external shape of the skull. Cranioscopy («cranium»: skull, «scopos»: vision) was later renamed to phrenology («phren»: mind, «logos»: study) by his follower Johann Spurzheim.
In spite of many problems associated with his work, Gall made significant contributions to neurological science. In 1823, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Read more about this topic: Franz Joseph Gall
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But the thing of it is, I need to be kept.
There’s work enough to do there’s always that;
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Is set me back a little more behind.
I shan’t catch up in this world, anyway.
I’d rather you’d not go unless you must.”
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Roe could run or doe could leap
Under oak and beechen bough,
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