AgentElman t1_iqnbry2 wrote
Reply to comment by TheLeopardSociety in TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism. by mfairview
You never know. Just like he was not sure of the benefits of recording all of this. Or Tycho Brahe was not sure of the benefits of all of the celestial observations he made and recorded.
We tend to discover that there is a lot to learn from big data. And most of it is things we did not expect to learn.
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