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The Paramaterial Phantasy

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy. Part Two.

This entry is part [part not set] of 2 in the series The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy.

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy Part II. The Revolution of the Eye and De-centering the Eye’s Sovereign In the first section, I discussed Andre du Laurens’ extended metaphorical treatment of the eye’s structure. There, du Laurens […]

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Posted in Scholarship, Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense Tagged Helkiah Crooke, History of medicine, history of science, Kepler, optics, paramaterial, Ambroise Paré, science, anatomy, senses, Augustine, sight, Descartes, skepticism, early modern, vision

Something is Rotten in Helkiah Crooke’s Gendered Representation of the Nose

In his Microcosmographia, Helkiah Crooke, drawing upon and adapting Placentinus, takes issue with the traditional hierarchy of the external senses in the opening gambit of book eight’s “Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies belonging to the Senses.” Whereas it was common practice in early modern anatomy and natural philosophy to account vision the “noblest sense,” […]

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Posted in Early Modern Senses, Shaping Sense Tagged Sense of smell, senses, anatomy, cultural studies, early modern, gender, Helkiah Crooke, history of science, Microcosmographia, nose 11 Comments

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