Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the mid-Victorian mind

乔治·库姆(1788-1858)是一位居住在爱丁堡的脑相学家，他在十九世纪中叶产生了巨大的思想影响。普莱斯·阿尔伯特的顾问：理查德·科布登的导师：对乔治·艾略特的形成影响：康贝为一代政治和教育改革者提供了智力上的灵感。由于他与声名狼藉的脑相学伪科学有关，库姆的名字变得默默无闻，这将是自1879年以来对他的生活和工作的第一次全面研究。在探讨的主题中，包括相相学和政治改革之间的联系，库姆作为公共讲师的角色，以及对他的《人的宪法》(1828)的详细考虑。

George Combe (1788-1858) was an Edinburgh-based phrenologist who came to wield a tremendous intellectual influence in the mid nineteenth century. An advisor to Price Albert: the mentor of Richard Cobden: a formative influence on George Eliot: Combe provided intellectual inspiration to a generation of political and educational reformers. Combe's name fell into obscurity due to his connection with the discredited pseudo-science of phrenology, and this will be the first full-length study of his life and work since 1879. Among the subjects explored are the connections between phrenology and political reform, Combe's role as a public lecturer, and a detailed consideration of his Constitution of Man (1828).