History of Anthropology Author:Alfred C. Haddon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ANTHROPOLOGY CHAPTER I The Pioneers Of Physical Anthropology A RISTOTLE, "the father of them that know," /A as Dante called him, is credited with having co... more »ined the word "anthropologist"; but he did not employ it in a very complimentary sense. Describing a lofty-minded man in his Ethics, he terms him oux avOpuicoXoyo?—not a gossip, not a talker about himself. But the word does not seem to have supplied a permanent want in the Greek world, and we meet it next in a Latin form in the sixteenth century. Anthropologium was then used in a restricted sense, relating to man's bodily structure; and the first work in which it occurs is generally stated to be Magnus Hundt's Anthro- pologium de hominis dignitate, which appeared in 1501, and dealt in a general way with human anatomy and physiology. Definition of the word "Anthropology." The first appearance of the word in English was probably in the seventeenth century, when an anonymous book was published bearing the title Anthropologie Abstracted; or, The idea of Humane nature reflected in briefe Philo- sophicall and anatomical collections (1655). The author defines his subject thus: Anthropologie, or the history of human nature, is, in the vulgar (yet just) impression, distinguished into two volumes: the first entitled Psychologie, the nature of the rational soule discoursed; the other anatomic, or the fabrick or structure of the body of man revealed in dissection ... of the former we shall in a distracted rehersall, deliver our collections.1 The meaning of the word was scarcely clear in the beginning of the nineteenth century, when we find, in the British Encyclopedia of 1822, the following definitions, "A discourse upon human nature," and "Among Divines, that manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute hu...« less