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Friday, August 22, 2008

 
RANDOM E BRITANNICA POST

COMBE, ANDREW, MD- 177-1847. b. edinburgh. an honored man in the field of sanitary reformers sought to PREVENT disease, by careful system of hygiene. into phrenology. head bumps.

COMBE, GEORGE- 1788-1858. b in edinburgh. advocate of phrenology. father a brewer + strict calvanist who brought up his 8 sons + 8 daughters in a rigid system of religeous instruction. grew up to be anti-church(no-really???). 1st apprenticed to lawyer blah blah wrote on phrenology. also philosophy.

COMBE, WILLIAM- 1741-1823. an anonomous hack writer of great fertility + some merit. b. in bristol. uncertain birth and parentage. educated at eton w/ fox, lyttleton, + william beckford. moved to london as law student + booksellers hack. essays published 1775. The Satire 1776. 1780 an inmate of the king's bench + much of the rest of his life in prison. corresponded. more writing.

COMET- calculating them. MATH! OH NOES! EQUATIONS!!!11!!1! p 182-193!!! MATH!!!

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