"How to walke on the Water. For to doe this, take two little Timbrels, and binde them under the soles of thy feete, and at a staves end fasten another; and with these you may walke on the water, unto the wonder of all such as shall see the same: if so be you often exercise the same with a certaine boldnesse and lightnesse of the body."
Thomas Hill, Naturall and Artificiall Conclusions (1649)
Good news: all it takes to walk on water is a couple of tambourines and a quick step! I'm off to practice this unto the wonder of all such as shall be swimming laps at the gym.
I trust that using timbrels to walk on water is one of the artificiall conclusions.
ReplyDeleteI think they tried this on mythbusters in the ninja episode
ReplyDeleteMay I ask what it means by "unto the wonder of all such as shall see the same"?
ReplyDeleteI think that's 17th-century for "You'll go viral on YouTube."
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