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. wikipedia.org Submitted by mfairview t3_xszjk7 on October 1, 2022 at 4:23 PM in todayilearned 49 comments 1,305
haggisbasher16 t1_iqnqwyp wrote on October 1, 2022 at 7:19 PM I suppose there was no concept of fuel/energy then so I can see where the idea of perspiration came from Permalink 49
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