By Sebastian Münster
Featured on PDR in the collection Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable.
Also appearing in the collection…
Blemmyes and other “monsters”
Date
1500
From
Cosmographiae uniuersalis, book VI
Image Size
1682 x 1200