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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Vico Equense

1 entries published in this place. (Vico Equense, IT)

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1586

#150

De humana physiognomonia libri IIII.

PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1536 – 1615)

Della Porta preceded Lavater in attempting to estimate human character by the features. This is one of the first works on the ancient “science” of physiognomy to be extensively illustrated.