n Saint Nicholas’s Day 1455, the physician Johannes Hartlieb got into an argument with an army captain about a goose bone. The two men had been discussing the prospect that the coming winter might be a mild one. Not a chance, declared the military man, pulling the breastbone from his pocket. He announced that studying a goose bone
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Jan 12, 2024
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