No Longer Accepted Scientific Models

By GuyWithTheMask

  • Phrenology

    Phrenology is a pseudoscience primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796.

  • The Planet Vulcan

    19th-century French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier believed that there was a planet in Mercurys orbit. he called it Vulcan.

  • Martian Canals

    For a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were canals on Mars. These were a network of long straight lines in the equatorial regions from 60° N. to 60° S. Lat. on the planet Mars.

  • Static universe

    Albert Einstein proposed a temporally infinite but spatially finite model as his preferred cosmology