Caption:
Skeleton with phrenological skull; Europe; 1801-1900. In the 1800s; phrenology became popular among a large number of people. Phrenologists believed that the shape and size of the different brain regions determined personality. There was also disagreement among phrenologists; as this skull shows. One half of the head shows the system of Franz Joseph Gall (1758 -1828); a German physician and founder of phrenology; the other half shows the system of his