A Colorful Albino: The First Documented Case of Synaesthesia, by Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs in 1812
A Colorful Albino: The First Documented Case of Synaesthesia, by Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs in 1812
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DOI：
10.1080/09647040802431946
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
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0.5
通讯作者：
Ward, Jamie
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作者：
Jewanski, Joerg;Day, Sean A.;Ward, Jamie
1812年，乔治·萨克斯发表了一篇关于他自己和他妹妹白化病的医学论文。然而，他还继续描述了另一种现象，即涉及音乐和简单序列（包括数字，日期和字母）的颜色的通感。大多数同时代的通感研究者在提供该学科的历史时都没有引用这个案例，更少的人会读到它（原文是用拉丁文出版的）。在这篇文章中，我们认为，萨克斯的情况下，是第一个令人信服的帐户通感，我们提供了第一个英文翻译他的描述，我们讨论的影响，在早期理论的通感和它的共振与当代的研究成果。
In 1812, Georg Sachs published a medical dissertation concerning his own albinism and that of his sister. However, he also goes on to describe another phenomenon namely synaesthesia involving colors for music and simple sequences (including numbers, days, and letters). Most contemporary researchers of synaesthesia fail to cite the case when offering a history of the subject and fewer still will have read it (the original was published in Latin). In this article, we argue that Sachs's case is the first convincing account of synaesthesia; we provide the first English translation of his description of it; we discuss the influence of the case in early theories about synaesthesia and its resonance with contemporary research findings.