n 1784 Immanuel Kant described the Age of Enlightenment as “man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.” We often think about this age in terms of intellectual maturity: astonishing advances in philosophy, science, religion, and politics. The Enlightenment also, however, delved into obscure realms of the human condition. Among the more unusual were esoteric and occasionally bizarre innovations in the sensory realm.
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