Duden 33-4: "Until the fifth century (and for many centuries thereafter) the eye not only sent out rays with which it saw, the eye also 'breathed in' what it perceived. Breathing, smell, and sight were still all the same stuff: the breath."
> from Barbara Duden's The Woman Beneath The Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)
> tagged with #sense, #perception
> created May 30, 2026 at 11:15:00 AM
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