430 On Ph^kjiagnomy. 



fory obfervations in Lancifius, * Hallerj- and 

 BuffonJ relate rather to the tranfient phyfiognomy 

 of the paflions, than the permanent features of 

 the face and body ; the well known charac- 

 ters of Le Brun, are alfo illuftrative of the 

 tranfient phyfiognomy. 



Earlier however than thefe writers, H our 

 Evelyn had inferted a copious digrefllon on 

 the fubjeft, ii), his Numijmatay a Difcourfe on 

 Medals ; in which there is a panegyric on 

 the fcience, with feveral pra6tical remarks and 

 mifcellaneous obfervations. Among the reft, 

 is an analyfis of the countenances of many 

 great men whofe charadters were known. It 

 does not appear however to contain upon the 

 whole any thing worthy of peculiar notice. 



The fubjecl feems to have been attended to 

 now and then during this century, but ,1 do 

 not find any thing remarkable concerning it, 

 till the difcufTion already mentioned, in the 

 Berlin Tranfadions § between M. Pernetty and 

 M. Le Catt. 



* The Medical and Anatomical Works of Lancifi were 

 publilhed in 171 8, in which there is a letter on the fubjeft 

 of phyfiognomy, and fome obfervations on the frontal 

 jnufcles. 



f Phyfiologia, quarto, vol. V. p. 591. 



X Hift. Nat. de I'hommie. Etat virile. 



II In 1697. S Vol. XXIV. 



This 



