The Naked Future (2014)
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The Black Death is ravaging Europe. At the port of Venice, a ship is approaching from the east. It is met by a small cammelli boat, a type of flat-bottomed vessel designed to guide larger ships through the shallow waters of the Venetian lagoon. But this cammelli carries a special passenger, one of Venice’s three newly appointed Guardians of Health. He boards the tall vessel and quickly sets to work inspecting the crew and cargo where he finds a man who is delirious with fever. The lymph nodes be...neath the man’s jaw are red and inflamed. The guardian informs the crew that they must leave port. Venice has just instituted an unprecedented protocol: any ship suspected of harboring men infected with the plague must move on for a period of quaranta giorni—forty days.
This edict marks the birth of the term “quarantine.”
Why forty days and not fifty, or sixty, or a year? The specificity of this prescribed interval dates back, again, to the ancient Greek thinker Pythagoras and his Doctrine of Critical Days, which suggested that illness in the human body strengthened or weakened on the basis of natural cycles and rhythms.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Black Death is ravaging Europe. At the port of Venice, a ship is approaching from the east. It is met by a small cammelli boat, a type of flat-bottomed vessel designed to guide larger ships through the shallow waters of the Venetian lagoon. But this cammelli carries a special passenger, one of Venice’s three newly appointed Guardians of Health. He boards the tall vessel and quickly sets to work inspecting the crew and cargo where he finds a man who is delirious with fever. The lymph nodes be...neath the man’s jaw are red and inflamed. The guardian informs the crew that they must leave port. Venice has just instituted an unprecedented protocol: any ship suspected of harboring men infected with the plague must move on for a period of quaranta giorni—forty days.
This edict marks the birth of the term “quarantine.”
Why forty days and not fifty, or sixty, or a year? The specificity of this prescribed interval dates back, again, to the ancient Greek thinker Pythagoras and his Doctrine of Critical Days, which suggested that illness in the human body strengthened or weakened on the basis of natural cycles and rhythms.
What to read after The Naked Future?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Patrick Tucker to read onlineMoreLess
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