The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... Bestiary in its several forms spread throughout the civilised world . Copies continued to be circulated until the eighteenth century ; a manuscript of one bestiary , now in Trinity College , Dublin , was made in Iceland as late as 1724 ...
... Bestiary in its several forms spread throughout the civilised world . Copies continued to be circulated until the eighteenth century ; a manuscript of one bestiary , now in Trinity College , Dublin , was made in Iceland as late as 1724 ...
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... bestiary , the siren is shown with a fish - tail and wings , but there is no doubt that they were birds originally ... bestiaries , and here too , the facts of nature which lie behind the legend are difficult to discover . The centaurs ...
... bestiary , the siren is shown with a fish - tail and wings , but there is no doubt that they were birds originally ... bestiaries , and here too , the facts of nature which lie behind the legend are difficult to discover . The centaurs ...
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... bestiary This description was taken up also by Aristotle , Pausanias and Pliny . Ctesias called the animal the martikhora ; a corrupt reading in Aristotle changed this into mantichora , and it was as manticora that it became widely ...
... bestiary This description was taken up also by Aristotle , Pausanias and Pliny . Ctesias called the animal the martikhora ; a corrupt reading in Aristotle changed this into mantichora , and it was as manticora that it became widely ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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