Custom-Made Contours: The Brief Trajectory of the Hat Conformateur in the Anthropological Society of Paris.
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9 avril 2025
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by Marina L. Sardi At the session of February 5th, 1879, in a meeting of the members of the Anthropological Society of Paris, its general secretary, the physician Paul Broca (1824-1880) (1879b), proclaimed the exclusion of the “conformateur”, used by hatters, as an instrument for measuring heads. He accused it of being misleading, offering one empirical evidence. Broca had his head measured twice, five minutes apart, by the same instrument and hatter, resulting in two cephalic curves that ha...
