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On Monsters and Marvels

paperback – October 1, 1995
by Pare, Ambroise
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ISBN-13: 9780226645636 ISBN-10: 0226645630
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Binding
paperback
Published
October 1, 1995
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
1.70×14.20×23.00 cm

About this book

On Monsters and Marvels by Pare, Ambroise. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226645636.

Ambroise Paré, born in France around 1510, was chief surgeon to both Charles IX and Henri III. In one of the first attempts to explain birth defects, Paré produced On Monsters and Marvels, an illustrated encyclopedia of curiosities, of monstrous human and animal births, bizarre beasts, and natural phenomena. Janice Pallisters acclaimed English translation offers a glimpse of the natural world as seen by an extraordinary Renaissance natural philosopher.