The Renaissance Craft Tradition That Made Tycho Brahe's Replacement Nose and a Thousand Other Lost Faces
Tycho Brahe wore a metal prosthetic nose for the entire adult portion of his life after losing the original to a student duel in 1566. The Renaissance prosthetics tradition that produced his nose was a substantial European craft specialism that survived from the 15th to the 19th century before being substantively replaced by 20th-century plastic surgery.
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