Edmund Burke Delabarre (1863 – 1945), was a researcher and professor of

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at Brown University. He graduated from Amherst College in 1886. He was a pioneer in the field of shape perception and on the interaction between mental processes and the involuntary movements of the body. He became famous, particularly in

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, because of his interpretation of the inscriptions present on the surface of

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, a boulder on the shore of the Taunton River, in southeastern

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. He attributed the carvings to

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, a

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navigator who left Lisbon in May 1502 on an exploration trip to the western

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, never to return. Delabarre claimed that the stone bears carvings of the

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, the name of Miguel Corte-Real, and the date 1511. In 1899, Delabarre was instrumental in formation of the ''University Club'' in Providence

Works

*
Über Bewegungsempfindungen
'. Freiburg in Baden, Epstein, 1891 * ''The force and rapidity of reaction movement'' (with R. R. Logan and O. F. Reed). Psychological Review 4: 615–631, 1897 * ''Les laboratoires de psychologie en Amérique''. L'Année Psychologique 1: 209–255, 1894 * ''Recent History of Dighton Rock'' Wilson and Son, Cambridge, MA. 1919
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''The Inscribed Rocks of Narrgansett Bay''. Volume XV No. 1 Rhode Island Historical Collections January 1922

Notes

External links

Biography of Edmund Delabarre in ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana'' of Brown University.Short biography, bibliography, and links on digitized sources
in the

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