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Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn s grave two days after his death in October 1820, Cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a peculiar kind of obsession. The desire to own the skulls of the famous, for study, for sale, for public (and private) display, seems to be... read more
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“There had been no contradiction between being a man of science and a man of religion. They provided different means to the same goal: understanding the works of God.”
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“"Believing, as I do, that the same Divine Wisdom which ordained the universe, presided also at the endowment of the brain with it's function; that the brain is the organ of the mind, and the mind is the noblest work of God;"”
George Combe - 1834
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At 2 o'clock in the afternoon on October 30, 1820, workers disinterred the body of the composer Joseph Hayden from his grave in Hundsthurmer Church in Vienna, preparing it for transit to the nearby city of Eisenstadt, home of his powerful patrons the Esterhazy family ... but there was a problem with what the grave diggers found that day.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Colin Dickey (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 612.75
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- Books › Professional & Technical › Medical › Basic Sciences › Physiology
- Books › Medicine › Basic Science › Physiology
- Books › History › World › 18th Century
- Books › History › World › 19th Century
- Books › History › World › 20th Century
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