{"id":1901,"date":"2013-03-08T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2013-10-22T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:00:25","slug":"seriously-similar-skulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/03\/08\/seriously-similar-skulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously similar skulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/monkey_human_skulls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1906\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/monkey_human_skulls-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/monkey_human_skulls-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/monkey_human_skulls-756x1024.jpg 756w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/monkey_human_skulls.jpg 1886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Could it be true that similar animal forms share the same habits?\u00a0 Jos\u00e9 Joaquim da Gama Machado certainly thought so, and produced the text and drawings to back it up.\u00a0 Machado was a 19th-century scientist who studied homeopathy, phrenology, as well as physiognomy before he took up natural history in his fifties.\u00a0 An extremely eccentric Portuguese man he spent his life surrounded by birds and was known to stroll about Paris, usually accompanied by his favorite parrot on his shoulder.\u00a0 The idea presented in <em>Th\u00e9orie des ressemblances<\/em> is that animals that share the same form, color, and outward\u00a0appearance also share the same habits and customs.\u00a0 <em>Th\u00e9orie des ressemblances<\/em> illustrates Machado&#8217;s theory with beautifully colored lithographic plates modeled on Machado&#8217;s own drawings along with French text detailing the comparisons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/birds_butterflies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1905\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/birds_butterflies-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/birds_butterflies-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/birds_butterflies-782x1024.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/parrot_butterfly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1904\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/parrot_butterfly-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/parrot_butterfly-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/03\/parrot_butterfly-721x1024.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu:80\/exlibris\/aleph\/u20_1\/alephe\/www_f_eng\/icon\/f-separator.gif\" alt=\"Link\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|013612180\" target=\"_blank\">Th\u00e9orie des ressemblances, ou, Essai philosophique sur les moyens de d\u00e9terminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux, d\u2019apr\u00e8s les analogies de formes, de robes et de couleurs \/\u00a0Par le Cher de G.M. &#8212; ; orn\u00e9 de Vingt Planches.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. 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