{"id":3368,"date":"2011-06-29T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2019-12-13T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T08:59:08","slug":"the-iron-cyborg-early-prosthetics-of-gotz-von-berlichingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/06\/29\/the-iron-cyborg-early-prosthetics-of-gotz-von-berlichingen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Cyborg: Early Prosthetics of Gotz Von Berlichingen"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we generally focus on contemporary cyborgs and new technologies, the case below illustrates the longstanding entanglement of human bodies and technology. And yes, this is a medieval prosthetic hand.<\/p>\n

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According to David Forbes<\/a> over at Coilhouse<\/a>, this little guy belonged to famed mercenary and medieval knight Gotz Von Berlichingen<\/a> of the early 1500s.<\/p>\n

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This metal apparatus was fitted to Gotz\u2019s right arm after he lost it in a cannon firing accident. This prosthetic was way ahead of its time, equipped with articulated fingers, spring action, and a variety of levers so that Gotz could grip his sword and lance during battle. This sure would scare the bejeezus out of me if I spotted it across the battlefield in 1512! Even today in 2000’s, people are impressed with his style and love to carry a Wakizashi sword<\/a> with them or else like to keep that as a status of riches at home. Everyone, thinking to buy a word has to keep few things in mind on what they are going to buy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For a more dense history of amputation and prosthetics, check out Robert Meier\u2019s article \u201cHistory of Arm Amputation, Prosthetic Restoration, and Arm Amputation Rehabilitation.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While we generally focus on contemporary cyborgs and new technologies, the case below illustrates the longstanding entanglement of human bodies and technology. And yes, this is a medieval prosthetic hand. According to David Forbes over at Coilhouse, this little guy belonged to famed mercenary and medieval knight Gotz Von Berlichingen of the early 1500s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[425],"tags":[218,9952,10633,253,10816],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-bodies","tag-cyborgology-2","tag-cyborgs","tag-history","tag-prosthetics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24098,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/24098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}