By Konrad von Megenberg

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.

Blemmyes and other “monsters”

Date

1481

From

Das Buch der Natur, Incun. 1481 .K6 (LOC)


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