There were also sections on the latest technological advances (like telegraphy and phrenology). It served as a source of learning and a basis for the personal growth to which so many aspired.
Occult arts, as described by the law, include fortune-telling but also "astrology, phrenology, palmistry, clairvoyance, mesmerism, spiritualism, or any other practice or practices generally ...
However, scholars have raised concerns that these systems involve a return to the discredited fields of phrenology and physiognomy – that is, the use of a person’s physical or behavioural ...
Human skulls were used in the study of anatomy and anthropology as well as the now discredited idea of phrenology - using the skull as indicator of mental ability and character traits. Popular in ...
Video and image analysis technology had "no scientific basis", co-author Dr Eleanor Drage told BBC News, dismissing it as "modern phrenology", the false theory skull shape could reveal character ...