In this Hebrew medical diagram — from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708) — the human body is mapped onto a house: every organ in the man’s open torso is lettered; each letter matches with a room or architectural feature. The heart of the home can be found where “the master” resides: behind latticed windows, which are the lungs, on the top floor. The kitchen is the stomach, the site of early modern chemical processes that sound gastronomical, such as effervescence and fermentation. Toward the home’s egress, the digestive tract ends with plumbing — storage tanks and waterworks. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/body-as-house-diagram
Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.
2024年6月20日 星期四
splash park and pool. In this Hebrew medical diagram — from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708) — the human body is mapped onto a house: every organ in the man’s open torso is lettered; each letter matches with a room or architectural feature. The heart of the home can be found where “the master” resides: behind latticed windows, which are the lungs, on the top fstomach, the site of early modern chemical processes that sound gastronomical, such as effervescence and fermentation. Toward the home’s egress, the digestive tract ends with plumbing — storage tanks and waterworks. More in our latest post
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