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1] In 1996, McGill University professor of neurosurgery Rolando Del Maestro curated an exhibition called "Leonardo da Vinci: The Search for the Soul."
2] Gall was led astray in part by his unconventional methodology.
3] Gall amassed a collection of 221 skulls, which traveled with him on his lecture circuit, exasperating porters and alarming nosy bellhops.
4] For four years of his life, Duncan Macdougall had been hatching a plan to prove the existence of the human soul.
5] Macdougall enlisted the help of two fellow physicians; Drs. Sproull and Grant.
4 Questions
1] What was the Carthaginian War about?
2] What are consumptives?
3] Was it legal to use living humans as experiments?
4] Who is Sanctorius?
3 Vocabulary
1] Amalgam: an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals.
2] Instilled: to introduce by gradual, persistent efforts; implant.
3] Conception: the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
2 Literary Terms
1] "Soul Weighing." -Metaphor.
2] "Perhaps some seizure-flung drool escaped the confines of the flask." -Metaphor.
1 Overview Sentence
Macdougall enlisted the help of two other physicians who helped him do a research on finding the soul in a living being.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Spook: Chapter 4
5 Comments
1] No one-at least on a scientific basis-knows for sure when the soul, the spirit, the self, instilled, or installed, or whatever process it uses to get itself in there.
2] Descartes is one of the few early philosopher/scientists to have physically searched for the soul, actaully opened up bodies and looked for it.
3] Descartes eventually nominated the pea-sized pineal gland.
4] Descartes dreamed up an elaborate model of the nervous system with strings and valves and tiny bellows.
5] The luz is shaped like a chickpea and is located at the top of the spine.
4 Questions
1] When does the soul enter the new body?
2] If the soul had arrived at conception, what would happen then?
3] What is a midrash?
4] Why was Herophilus looking around for a soul in a dead man?
3 Vocabulary
1] Contend: to struggle in opposition.
2] Supplanting: to usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics.
3] Primitive: being the first or earliest or the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world.
2 Literary Terms
1] "The very first person to poke around for a soul in a human cadaver was the third century B.C. physician Herophilus, of Alexandria." -Metaphor.
2] "As such, he bagged a lot of anatomical discoveries." -Metaphor.
1 Overview Sentence
Scientists were trying to find if they could find a soul, so they opened up dead bodies to look for them.
1] No one-at least on a scientific basis-knows for sure when the soul, the spirit, the self, instilled, or installed, or whatever process it uses to get itself in there.
2] Descartes is one of the few early philosopher/scientists to have physically searched for the soul, actaully opened up bodies and looked for it.
3] Descartes eventually nominated the pea-sized pineal gland.
4] Descartes dreamed up an elaborate model of the nervous system with strings and valves and tiny bellows.
5] The luz is shaped like a chickpea and is located at the top of the spine.
4 Questions
1] When does the soul enter the new body?
2] If the soul had arrived at conception, what would happen then?
3] What is a midrash?
4] Why was Herophilus looking around for a soul in a dead man?
3 Vocabulary
1] Contend: to struggle in opposition.
2] Supplanting: to usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics.
3] Primitive: being the first or earliest or the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world.
2 Literary Terms
1] "The very first person to poke around for a soul in a human cadaver was the third century B.C. physician Herophilus, of Alexandria." -Metaphor.
2] "As such, he bagged a lot of anatomical discoveries." -Metaphor.
1 Overview Sentence
Scientists were trying to find if they could find a soul, so they opened up dead bodies to look for them.
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