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When medieval mapmakers filled the unknown world with monsters
When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just ...
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Monsters that appeared in medieval books and maps
Long before modern science, medieval travelers and scholars documented incredible creatures in their books and maps. From ...
The Roman historian Sallustius, also known as Sallust, hit on a crystalline formulation to describe concepts that we know to be fictional and unreal but that nevertheless loom large in our ...
"Co-published by the British Library"--Colophon. Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), 52. SCDIRB copy 390880019622067 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning ...
Section of the Chapter Seven frontispiece Natalie created for Enchanted Creatures showing curiosity cabinet specimens Source: Natalie Lawrence I've always thought that nonhuman animals (animals) are ...
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