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-3500 |
Rig-Veda, ancient sacred poem of India written in Sanskrit between 3500 and 1800 B.C., tells of a warrior queen, Vishpla, who loses a leg in battle, is fitted with an iron prosthesis, and goes back to the battle. Reportedly first written record of a prosthesis. |
AMP ASIA CUL TECH |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
-355 |
Aristotle on Deaf people: those “born deaf become senseless and incapable of reason.” |
CUL DF EUR |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
-218 |
Marcus Sergius, Roman general who lost right arm in battle against Carthage during Second Punic War. Allegedly fitted with iron hand so he could hold his shield. But rejected as priest because priests required to have both hands unimpaired. |
AMP EUR REL TECH VET |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
1260 |
First separate institution to provide for disabled soldiers. |
EUR VET |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
1500 |
Physician Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) first to realize Deaf people capable of reason. |
DF EUR |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
1508 |
Gotz von Berlichingen, German knight who repeatedly defended peasants, lost right arm in Battle of Landshut (1508). Had two, mechanical prosthetic iron hands made with independently movable joints controlled by springs and suspended with leather straps. |
AMP EUR TECH |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
1526 |
Juan Fernandez Navarette, “El Mudo” (“the Mute”), (1526-1579), Deaf, court painter to king of Spain. Student of Titian. Fluent signer; never spoke. Literate, well-read in history and theology. |
ART DF EUR |
Harlan Lane, When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf (New York: Random House, 1984; New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 92. |
1575 |
Spanish legal scholar named Lasso concludes Deaf people who learn speech are not “dumb” and should therefore enjoy right to inherit property, goods, and titles. |
DF EUR L&P |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
1597 |
William Shakespeare's King Richard III first performed, creating one of English literature's greatest villians, the "hunchbacked" monarch. Historical Richard had no disability. |
BRI CUL PHY |
Shakespeare, William. King Richard III. London: Printed by Valentine Sims, 1597. |
1616 |
G. Bonifacio, Of The Art of Signs, treatise on sign language. |
DF EUR PUB |
[Dias and Chadwick], Disability Social History Project. |
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