Feb 13, 2023
Walter Charleton – Scientist of the Day
Walter Charleton, an English physician and natural philosopher, was born Feb. 13, 1619.
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Walter Charleton – Scientist of the Day
Walter Charleton, an English physician and natural philosopher, was born Feb. 13, 1619.
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Walter Charleton – Scientist of the Day
Walter Charleton, an English natural philosopher, was born Feb. 13, 1619.
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"Hence it comes, that Excess of Admiration sometimes induceth a Stupor, or Astonishment... whereby a Man is held stiff, motionless, and senseless, as if he were turned into a statue. For it causeth that all the Animal Spirits in the brain are so vehemently imployed in contemplating and conserving the image of the object, that their usual influx... in other parts of the body is wholly intercepted, nor can they by any means be diverted: whereby all members of the body are held in a rigid posture, inflexible as those of a dead carcas, or of Man killed by Lightning... a memorable Example in a young Man of our Nation, who violently resenting a suddain and unexpected repulse in his love, and astonished thereat, became as it were congeal'd in the same posture, and continued rigid in his whole body till next day."
Walter Charleton, A Natural History of the Passions (London: 1701). sigs. G5v-G6r.