{"id":162218,"date":"2023-04-15T08:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/what-they-thought-of-aging-in-1931"},"modified":"2023-04-15T08:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:22:59","slug":"what-they-thought-of-aging-in-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/what-they-thought-of-aging-in-1931","title":{"rendered":"What they thought of aging in 1931"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKw3Dg5WGzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What did scientists think about aging in 1931? That\u2019s right. 1931. because that is the year the first biological textbook was published \u201cThe Science of Life\u201d. I managed to get my hands on the first edition of this textbook. This was my face when i first received it. As you can see i was quite excited. And this textbook is made up of separate books. I bought book i last year and i read it. Having enjoyed it and discovered that it was part of this massive ensemble piece \u2014 well, i\u2019ve read the first \u201cbook\u201d \u2014 there are, if my roman numerals are correct, 9 books in total. And in this first book, penned \u201cThe Living Body\u201d, the authors, most famously, H.G.Wells, Sir Julian Huxley and G.P.Wells, H.G\u2019s son discusses the body as a machine and that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the present it is enough to remember that all animals (including men) are combustion engines of an intricate and curious kind, which live by oxidising their food\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I bought first The Living Body and then discovered it was part of this massive ensemble piece and decided i needed to read it. Now, besides being surprised to find out that H.G.Wells wrote not just non-fiction, but biology non-fiction, i was also surprised to hear how both similar &amp; dissimilar their views were back in 1931 compared to today and i wasnt sure if that was good or terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did they think of human aging. Well, in the last chapter of this 1st book titled \u201cThe wearing out of the machine and its reproduction\u201d, they discuss it.<\/p>\n<p>Sheekey bookmarks \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contrado.co.uk\/stores\/the-sheekey-science-show\/classic-theme\/classic-sheekey-leather-bookmark-1999569\">https:\/\/www.contrado.co.uk\/stores\/the-sheekey-science-show\/c\u2026rk-1999569<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find me on Twitter \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EleanorSheekey.\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/EleanorSheekey.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/what-they-thought-of-aging-in-1931\">Continue reading \u201cWhat they thought of aging in 1931\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did scientists think about aging in 1931? That\u2019s right. 1931. because that is the year the first biological textbook was published \u201cThe Science of Life\u201d. I managed to get my hands on the first edition of this textbook. This was my face when i first received it. As you can see i was quite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}