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Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History

by The Public Domain Review on publicdomainreview.orgArticle

In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson investigates the source and manifestation of this…

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