Metoposcopia: How To Spot Character From Forehead Wrinkles, 1661
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Metoposcopia: How To Spot Character From Forehead Wrinkles, 1661
These images from Centifrons Idolum Iani Hoc est: Metoposcopia Seu Prosopomantia by Johannes Praetorius (1661) attempt to convey the importance forehead topography plays in knowing another's character. The study of foreheads is known as Metoposcopy, a pseudo-science developed in the 16th century by the Italian Renaissance mathematician, Gerolamo Cardano (Jerome Cardan). He published a treatise on the subject in 1658.
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