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Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.

A man writing; representing the faculty of memory. Engraving, 16--.

The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.

A woman holds the sun in her hand; representing the faculty of understanding. Engraving, 16--.

Three diagrams of the organisation of the lobes of the brain for a phrenological textbook. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

Phrenological chart, with list of 35 faculties. Wood engraving with letterpress, written by E.T. Craig, 1836.

An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Three perspectives of a head divided according to phrenological 'faculties', with key. Colour pen drawing.

An artist painting a woman with a hand mirror and the devil; representing the faculty of the imagination. Engraving, 16--.

Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

Venture with ideas / by Kenneth Walker.

Rehabilitating bodies : health, history, and the American Civil War / Lisa A. Long.

From knowledge to wisdom : a revolution in the aims and methods of science / Nicholas Maxwell.

Worldviews, science and us : redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003 / editors, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Nicole Note.

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Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

Venture with ideas / by Kenneth Walker.

Rehabilitating bodies : health, history, and the American Civil War / Lisa A. Long.

From knowledge to wisdom : a revolution in the aims and methods of science / Nicholas Maxwell.

Worldviews, science and us : redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003 / editors, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Nicole Note.

Knowledge, Theory of

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Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

Venture with ideas / by Kenneth Walker.

Rehabilitating bodies : health, history, and the American Civil War / Lisa A. Long.

From knowledge to wisdom : a revolution in the aims and methods of science / Nicholas Maxwell.

Worldviews, science and us : redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003 / editors, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Nicole Note.

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