24 February 2007
The Persistence of Phrenology and Panspermia

Filed under Aleatory Research

This is an illustration from the Chicago Tribune reproduced by Paula S. Fass in her article “Making and Remaking an Event: The Leopold and Loeb Case in American Culture” (Journal of American History, 80.3 [1993]: 919-953). The phrenological imagination did not disappear as quickly as you might assume.

The panspermic fragment of Anaxagoras—when was it first extended to the Hoyle cosmic hypothesis? Svante Arrhenius cannot be the first, though Worlds in Making is a book that I want to read. I should return to The Biological Universe here, I suppose.

2007-02-24  ::  Jonathan