turicensis.bsky.social
👤 Joined on 03 October 2023
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@rafaelturicum.bsky.social@rafaelturicum.bsky.social → @turicensis.bsky.socialWhen Christopher Columbus set foot on the island of Guanahaní in 1492, he was struck not only by the novelty of the land but also by the very act of seeing. Lars Mittelstaedt argues that historians' work begins not with abstraction, but with perception: nemos.hypotheses.org... #TheoryOfHistory
Show Post🩺👂 The 'seeing ear' in early medicine: long before labs, doctors heard, tasted & smelled illness. From sweet urine in diabetes to Laënnec’s #stethoscope — diagnosis was multisensory. Birgit Näther explores this rich sensory history. nemos.hypotheses.org... #MedicalHistory #MultisensoryMedicine
Show PostNEMoS - Network of Early Modern Senses #SensoryHistory @lucowitz.bsky.social
Show PostHow did #Paris smell in the seventeenth century? According to the account of the visiting englishman John Evelyn, it stank ‘as if sulphur were mingled in the mud’. Follow Peter Burke on his way through #Singapore #Amsterdam #Cairo #Venice #London #Manchester & #SãoPaulo :
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