One 17th-century Florentine physician is reported to have turned a corpse to stone by injecting the tissues with a solution of silicate of potash and then immersing the body in a mild acid solution.
Not only are scientists working on improved versions of gravity-fighting gear, like air-inflatable pressure pants and anti-G suits that push blood up to the head, but some are also testing radically different flight suits that simulate immersing the body in water to counteract acceleration forces.
A whirlpool bath was administered where subjects immersed the body until their clavicle level for a 10min period with a water temperature ranging 33.5-35.5°C 33.5-35.5°C
And every 18 months they immerse the whole body for 30 days in a glass bath of potassium and glycerin.
Physical sound field reproduction methods for spatial sound reproduction are mandatory to immerse the listener׳s body in the proper sound fields so that localization cues are recreated at the listener׳s ears.
The heart of the book is her absorption in everyday sensations, such as the excitement of taking a bath during a storm: "I moved a web of lather about the roots of my hair and became immersed in the body of the storm".
As she listens to a storm in the shower, for instance: "I knew it was an old one that had come back … I moved a web of lather about the roots of my hair and became immersed in the body of the storm; I knew its structure, saw its eyes, felt its past, and I empathized with its entreaty".
Pomponazzi then observes that in the ladder of beings man holds an intermediate position: though not completely immersed in the body, like animals, he nevertheless does not enjoy the condition of the Intelligences, or immaterial forms, which have no need of the body either as substrate or as object of representation.
As a result, when we grow into adults we are "immersed" in the body and the senses, and so we accept the philosophical view that the senses are the basis for learning about the nature of the reality (7 38, 75, 82 3).
