"   These senses, our favorites, are far from being perfect, and I will not pause to prove it. I will only observe, that that ethereal sense--sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.   By means of spectacles the eye, so to say, escapes from the decay of age, which troubles almost all the other organs.   The telescope has discovered stars hitherto unknown and inaccessible to all our means of mensuration; it has penetrated distances so great, that luminous and necessarily immense bodies present themselves to us only like nebulous and almost imperceptible spots. "

― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin , The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy