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WATERSTON, John James (1811-1883)

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Born: 1811

Died: 1883

Editorial Description

physicist, chemist and astronomer; son of an Edin manufacturer who was related to George Sandamen (the founder of the Sandamenian sect); his scientific research was seen posthumously to have been of great value and shamefully ignored; collected papers and biography by J. S. Haldane (1928). (DSB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

1170.1 — 1170.1 "On the Organology of Gall," in his Thoughts on the Mental Functions; Being an Attempt to Treat Metaphysics as a Branch of the Physiology of the Nervous System. Edin: Oliver & Boyd, 1843: 163-84. (Saw the crudeness of phrenology as more than compensated for by its drawing attention to the "dependence of the moral on the physical"; high praise for GALL. Reviewed PHREN J, 16 [1843]: 305-6, 375-85.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	1170.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	342
Printed page	337
Database ID	3218

Original Transcription

1170. WATERSTON, John James (1811-83), physicist, chemist and
astronomer; son of an Edin manufacturer who was related to George
Sandamen (the founder of the Sandamenian sect); his scientific research was seen posthumously to have been of great value and shamefully ignored; collected papers and biography by J. S. Haldane
(1928).
(DSB)