10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRANIOMETER»
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craniometer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
craniometer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia
C ran io meter A craniometer measures features of the human skulL
Craniometers can range from simple devices that determine basic head
diameters to more complicated instruments able to provide angular as well as
linear measurements ...
Robert Bud, Deborah Jean Warner, 1998
2
Pearls for Your Practice
our. *. /. The. Craniometer. by. Craniometrics,. Inc. One of the biggest problems in
fixed and removable prostho- dontics is the determination of the correct vertical
dimension. There are many methods for this determination, but all involve some ...
3
Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific ...
The cranium contained in the craniometer is a wellmarked specimen of the
scapho-cephalic form, with the usual early obliteration of the inter~parietal suture.
The instrument was made for Professor Struthers by Mr. I'. Stevenson,
philosophical ...
Anon, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR, 2011
4
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ...
ON A NEW CRANIOMETER. Dr John Struthers showed a craniometer which he
had designed some time ago, and had found useful in taking exact
measurements of the cranium. It is essentially a glass box, the panes of which are
accurately ...
Sewall describes this "craniometer" as "the instrument principally in use" to
ascertain the volumes of the brain. The cra- niometer measured the size of a
phrenological organ by determining its distance from the ear. Although the tips of
the ...
6
The Medical Times and Gazette
The instrument Mr. Busk uses as a craniometer, and □which may be procured of
Mr. Hudson, Optician, Greenwich, may be described as consisting of a stem
about thirteen inches long, and two branches, Bix inches in length, one of which
is ...
7
Thesaurus Craniorum. Catalogue of the skulls of the various ...
These measurements, from E, are best taken with Mr. Boss's craniometer. a,
frontal height or radius; b, parietal height or radius; 0, occipital height or radius,
i. e. the distance from the chord or axis of the external auditory orifices to the most
...
Joseph Barnard Davis, 1867
8
The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton ...
The Department of Statistical Sciences at University College London holds a
craniometer, used for measuring skulls, that belonged to the archaeologist
William Matthew Flinders Petrie. A letter from the Egyptologist Margaret Murray to
George ...
9
Thesaurus craniorum: Catalogue of the skulls of the various ...
These measurements, from E, are best taken with Mr. Busk's craniometer. a,
frontal height or radius; b, parietal height or radius; c, occipital height or radius,
i. e. the distance from the chord or axis of the external auditory orifices to the most
...
Joseph Barnard Davis, 1867
10
The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health: ...
The ordinary craniometer — an ' instrument too much neglected — determines
the length of the axis at any point of the surface assumed to be the centre of the
base of an organ. Dut suppose phrenologists to differ, and the views of all to ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRANIOMETER»
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craniometer is used in the context of the following news items.
Post-Freedom Poetry
“I was sexually active by the age of 4, not because as the craniometer-wielding anthropologists would claim (black people are over-sexed ... «CounterPunch, Sep 13»
NBA: The 10 Biggest Boneheads in the Miami Heat's Franchise History
... that measures a player's relative degree of bone-to-head ratio and expresses it as a number from one to 10. I call it the Osteo-craniometer. «Bleacher Report, Oct 11»
