Lombroso

American

[lom-broh-soh, lawm-braw-saw] / lɒmˈbroʊ soʊ, lɔmˈbrɔ sɔ /

noun

Cesare 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.

Lombroso British

/ lomˈbroːso /

noun

Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1836–1909, Italian criminologist: he postulated the existence of a criminal type

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A collection of human specimens, including 712 skulls, is now preserved in the Cesare Lombroso Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

Talk with criminologists about biology, and one name comes up again and again: Cesare Lombroso.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

Where Lombroso used calipers and craniographs, Kosinski has been using neural networks to find patterns in photos scraped from the internet.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2018

Lombroso would have approved, but they have little appeal to the liberal mind.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

M. Lombroso began by carefully examining the medium, after which we took places around a gaming table.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

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