“Scientists now agree that the classical five senses are not the only avenues through which we gather information about the world around and, equally important, inside us. Aristotle failed to specify proprioception (the sense of how our body parts are positioned in space relative to one another), equilibrioception (the sense of linear acceleration and head position), thermoception (the sense of heat and cold) and nociception (the sense of pain).” A new book by Scott McCredie sets out to prove what one of my doctor friends was passionately explaining to me the other day: that balance was very mistakenly left off of Aristotle’s famously repeated list of the “five senses.” Read the NYT review of McCredie’s book here.