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Phrenological model of personality traits

Phrenology model of the locations of the "various organs of mind" in the human head, c. 1890.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Galileo attempting to defend his belief in the heliocentric solar system before the Inquisition in Rome, 1633.
Hand colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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Archaeologists remove artifacts from a pyramid at Dashur, Egypt

M. de Morgan lifts a golden crown from the mummy of Queen Khnemit at Dahshur, 1890s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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