History and progress of phrenology : (read before the Western Phrenological Society, at Buffalo) (1839)
Haskins, R. W. (Roswell Willson), 1796-1870, Western Phrenological Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) · Buffalo : Steele & Peck · leaf 26
a copy of them, in quarto,London, 1794, with numerous plates, we have nowbefore us. The facial angle, of which Camper is thewell known inventer, is here illustrated at large.This is based upon the difference in the shape of thebones of the face of men and other animals. The jawsof brutes are more… … Here, the right line A B, drawn along the base ofthe scull, passes across the orifice of the ear, and tothe bottom of the nose, while the right line A C,extends from the roots of the upper incisors to theforehead, which it just touches. The angle openedby these two lines will be more acute the less…
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