The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses by Carolyn Purnell

The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

Carolyn Purnell

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science informative reflective medium-paced
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Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense.As often as we use our se...

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