different between cranioscopist vs cranioscopy

English

cranioscopy +? -ist

cranioscopist (plural cranioscopists)

(archaic) A person who makes deductions concerning someone's intellectual, emotional, or moral qualities by studying the features of that individual's skull; a phrenologist.
- 1863, Charles Carter Blake, "On the Cranial Characters of the Peruvian Races of Men," Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 2, p. 228,
  It is very trying to the patience of a cranioscopist to study the pages of Morton. Few of the skulls are placed in any uniform position.

cranio- +? -scopy

cranioscopy (countable and uncountable, plural cranioscopies)

(rare) The study of the shape, size, and other features of the human skull.
- 1864, C. G. Carus, "Some Remarks on the Construction of the Upper Jaw of the Skull of a Greenlander," Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, vol. 2, p. cxiv,
  In the first part of my Atlas on Cranioscopy, which appeared in Leipzig in 1843, I remarked that in the skull of a Greenlander, which I sketched, it was singular, that on this skull there was a decided separation between the upper jaw-bone and the intermaxillary bone, almost as in little children or in quadrupeds.
(dated) Phrenology.
- 1978, William J. Broad, "Lost in Thought," Science News, vol. 114, no. 22, p. 361,
  A theory that was totally wrong helped focus attention on the right questions. Some people called it phrenology. Its founder, Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) called it cranioscopy. . . . It held that the brain had specific areas of function and that mental and moral attributes of a person could be determined by examination of the cranium.

Webster, Noah (1828) , “cranioscopy”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

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