Petrus Camper

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Petrus Camper
Peter, Pieter, or usually Petrus Camper (May 111722 in Leiden –  April 71789 in The Hague) was a Dutch anatomistanthropologist and a naturalist, as well as an furniture maker, a sculptor and a patron of art. He also was an orangist burgomaster of Workum and a member of the state council of the Dutch Republic. One of the first to interest himself to comparative anatomy and paleontology, he also invented the measure of the "facial angle", aimed at measuring the intelligence of animals and human beings in an attempt to "scientifically" demonstrate racist theories.
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