When Santorio Santorio began systematically weighing his food, drink, body, and everything that came out of it in the sixteenth century, it was not the eccentric hobby of a bored physician. He was doing something radically new: measuring. Through the careful measurement of excrement, he demonstrated that knowledge does not emerge from impressions, authority, or grand words, but from repeated observation, evidence, and data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This lecture explores excrement as an unexpected hero in the history of knowledge. It shows how waste becomes information and how faeces can become a scientific argument. From Renaissance scales through modern medicine, the microbiome, archaeology, and wastewater analysis, it offers a passionate defence of a simple idea: science advances when we stop talking and start measuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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