Dane Hexx's Mind Closet

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Mademoiselle Ledue, a performer at the Folies Bergère, ca. 1924

Charles Swedlund

Alberto Martini - Illustration from “Between Thee And Him Alone"

Jane Grealy 1. Puppy with Stick, 2021 2. Legs, 2021

Anatoly Fomenko

“DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE” GUSTAVE DORÉ // 1865 [engraving | unknown dimensions]

📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 2500 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land

Dan Hillier

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by Igor Myszkiewicz

For Aristotle, the senses were distinct. In ‘De Anima’ (On the Soul), he describes sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch individually, and in that hierarchical order. The Aristotelian view dominated Classical and later medieval discourses on the senses. While later scholars also espoused the classical tradition, new scientific ideas were introduced in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. René Descartes and Johannes Kepler presented the physiology of the senses within an entirely new theoretical framework. Descartes ascribed to the senses a purely physical function, unlike Aristotle, and Kepler contributed discoveries grounded in empirical research. He measured and assessed eyesight using optical aids (e.g. spectacles, the telescope, the camera obscura), which were increasingly available in the early modern period. Ever-changing technological developments allowed for new forms of sensory experience and substantiated the idea that the senses were distinct in their functions and physiological forms.