Synesthesia arthur rimbaud biography
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A Brief Year History of Synesthesia
Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon.
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There is no reason to think that synesthesia hasn’t existed throughout all of human history. We just don’t have adequate records to make a reliable determination. Famous thinkers such as Aristotle, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Sir Isaac Newton reasoned by analogy (an accepted scientific method until the end of the 17th century) across different dimensions of perception to pair, for example, a sound frequency with a given wavelength frequency of light.
The first photograph of a synesthetic individual dates from It is of eight-year-old Ellen Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The philosopher Henry David Thoreau, a close family friend, wrote to Ellen&#;s father in “I was struck by Ellen’s askin
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History of synesthesia research
Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. For example, in a form of synesthesia known as grapheme-color synesthesia, letters or numbers may be perceived as inherently colored. Historically, the most commonly described form of synesthesia (or synesthesia-like mappings) has been between sound and vision, e.g. the hearing of colors in music.
Early investigations of colored hearing
[edit]The interest in colored hearing, i.e. the co-perception of color in hearing sounds or music, dates back to Greek antiquity, when philosophers were investigating whether the colour (chroia, what we now call timbre) of music was a physical quality that could be quantified.[1] The seventeenth-century physicist Isaac Newton tried to solve the problem by assuming that musical tones and colour tones have frequencies in common.[2] The age-old quest for colour-pitch correspondences in order to evoke perce
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A årstid in HellArthur Rimbaud, b. Oct. 20, , the precocious boy-poet of French symbolism, wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the 19th century. His highly suggestive, subtle work drew on subconscious sources, and its form was correspondingly supple and novel. Rimbaud has be