The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ...Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Thomas Bendyshe, Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx, Pierre Flourens, Rudolph Wagner, John Hunter Anthropological Society, 1865 - 406 Seiten "The Works of Blumenbach edited in this volume are the first and third or last edition of his famous Treatise On the Natural Variety of Mankind; which were published in 1775 and 1795 respectively: the Contributions to Natural History, in two parts; and a slight notice of three skulls which appeared in the Gottingische gelehrte Anzeigen of Nov. 1833, only remarkable for being the last printed utterance of the author. Two Memoirs of Blumenbach have been prefixed, which contain together almost everything of interest concerning the circumstances of his life. I have also added an account of his once famous anthropological collection, written by his successor, now himself lately deceased, Professor Rudolph Wagner, one of the original Honorary Fellows of the Anthropological Society, London. Blumenbach has related in the little autobiographical fragment, which has been incorporated by Marx in his memoir, the causes which led to his selection of an anthropological subject as the thesis for his doctoral dissertation"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Seite 188 - Mechiko), to effect this, fix the tender infant on a kind of cradle, where his feet are tilted above a foot higher than a horizontal position, his head bends back into a hole made on purpose to receive it, where he bears the chief part of his weight on the crown of the head upon a small bag of sand, without being in the least able to move himself.
Seite 92 - Maners of the Savages To declare unto you the state of the Savages, they are people of a goodly stature, and well made, they are very white, but they are all naked: and if they were apparelled as the French are, they would bee as white and as fayre: but they paynt themselves for feare of heat and sunne burning.
Seite 95 - I have been endeavouring by what has been said to demonstrate, that colour, whatever be its cause, be it bile, or the influence of the sun, the air, or the climate, is, at all events, an adventitious and easily changeable thing, and can never constitute a diversity of species.
Seite 142 - SPEECH, consisting of names or appellations, and their connexion; whereby men register their thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves.
Seite 219 - I must confess that both the colour and contour of the countenance had considerable resemblance to the people of their nation. On pointing out several other monkeys of different kinds, they were greatly diverted at the mistake which they had made ; but were not well pleased to observe that monkeys resembled their race much more than oursf.
Seite 80 - Although there seems to be so great a difference between widely separate nations, that you might easily take the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, the Greenlanders, and the Circassians for so many different species of man, yet when the matter is thoroughly considered, you see that all do so run into one another, and that one variety of mankind does so sensibly pass into the other, that you cannot mark out the limits between them.
Seite 207 - For in the first place, that stock displays, as we have seen (s. 62^ , the most beautiful form of the skull, from which, as from a mean and primeval type, the others diverge by most easy gradations on both sides to the two ultimate extremes (that is, on the one side the Mongolian, on the other the Ethiopian).
Seite 197 - It is generally said that the penis in the Negro is very large. And this assertion is so far borne out by the remarkable genitory apparatus of an ^Ethiopian which I have in my anatomical collection.
Seite 164 - ... following generations. Hence, if I mistake not, we are to look for the reason why the brown colour of skin contracted in the torrid zone will last longer in another climate than the white colour of northern animals if they are transported towards the south. 5. Finally, the mediate influences of those sorts of causes may lie hid and be at such a distance, that it may be impossible even to conjecture what they are, and hence we shall have to refer the enigmatical phenomena of degeneration to them,...
Seite 295 - Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Stuhlweissenberg, Hungary. Schwabe, ES, Esq. Rhodes Terrace, Manchester. Scott, The Rev. Robert S., MA 7 Beaufort Terrace, Cecil Street, f Seemann, Berthold, Esq., MD, FLS 39 Canonbury Sy., Islington.