Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Steampunk Quiz

I made this a while ago, and stuck it on the bottom of my blog, but the link is broken now. It never worked that great anyway. So here is the real link to my steampunk quiz. Put your results in the comments!
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  1. penny farthingMarch 10, 2010 at 8:46 PM

    Mwahaha. I always get "pirate"

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  2. RachelMarch 10, 2010 at 10:29 PM

    I am an explorer...an explorer with an airship! Haha!

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  3. Sophia's FavoriteMarch 10, 2010 at 11:29 PM

    I got "Man of Science". Fools! I'll show them all!

    My Day is a bit earlier than yours (it's from 1091 to 1348), but that, too, was a great age of science. Actually apparently its medical science, at least in France and Italy, wasn't equaled again until the 1890s. Medieval surgeons routinely used laudanum and other anaesthetics, and understood the need for sanitation in medical facilities.

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  4. penny farthingMarch 19, 2010 at 1:25 PM

    1890s indeed! It's really pathetic how much medical knowledge was forgotten and abandoned during the intervening centuries. If you want something gross to read, look up surgery from the Crimean War. There was no improvement until about ten years after the Civil War, and sterilization, and even basic sanitation, was unknown until the 1880s.

    Laudanum and ether weren't widely reintroduced until the 1860s, and until the 1880s, were administered so poorly that they could be nearly as dangerously as the surgery itself.

    Another field which saw amazing development in Medieval times was anatomy. I found a book of anatomical illustrations and studies through the ages, and it was really amazing. That did continue through the Renaissance, at least, but the actual practice of surgery went downhill. Not sure why. It wasn't until the "enlightenment" that dissection of cadavers became restricted, mostly in England - it continued in France - and it wasn't until the mid 19th Century that it became widely practiced again.

    I would love to see what people like the ones in the Middle Ages would have done with the technology from the 19th century (which they would probably have developed a lot sooner too). Imagine the architecture!

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  5. AnonymousApril 9, 2010 at 8:58 PM

    I keep coming up as an explorer. Oh, how I feel I'm so tied down in my actual life... thank God for books!
    Mom.

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