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Sea-Devil, Legendary Creature

Woodcut entitled: On the devil fish (or sea-devil), 1563, based on a skeleton and mummies. In Greek mythology ichthyocentaurs (or ikhthyokentauroi) were a pair of centaurine sea-gods with the upper body of a man, the lower front of a horse, the tail of a fish and they wore lobster-claw horns. Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria (Gesneriaceae) is named after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Gesner when citing a botanical name.
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Sea-Devil, Legendary Creature
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Woodcut entitled: On the devil fish (or sea-devil), 1563, based on a skeleton and mummies. In Greek mythology ichthyocentaurs (or ikhthyokentauroi) were a pair of centaurine sea-gods with the upper body of a man, the lower front of a horse, the tail of a fish and they wore lobster-claw horns. Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria (Gesneriaceae) is named after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Gesner when citing a botanical name.
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black & white • Medical: History
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Album / NLM/Science Source
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4200 x 2343 px | 28.2 MB
Print size:
35.6 x 19.8 cm | 14.0 x 7.8 in (300 dpi)
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