ABSTRACT
At the end of the seventeenth century, the English physician Thomas Willis asserted that in the course of his revolutionary autopsy work he had identified the area of the brain that was responsible for the activity of imagining in an individual. In the seventeenth century, Willis was the first physician to suggest that “sense impressions were carried centrally, then collected and perceived in the sensorium commune, or, beyond this, elaborated into higher functions, such as imagination, will, and memory.” In the eighteenth century, Henry Fielding was the first writer to coin the word “authoring” to describe the new enterprise of novel writing. According to G. S. Rousseau, sometime in the late seventeenth century, man discovered his imagination.
