19 décembre 2016
Ulrike Fuss, « A monster named "Jenny" (December 2016) », Fish in time and history, ID : 10670/1.lac37v
In the December posting of the Leiden Arts in Society Blog; “Monstrous rays and fraudulent apothecaries”, Sophia Hendrikx looked in three of the major early modern works about fish. Referring to Pierre Belonùs “De Aquatilibus” (Paris 1553), Conrad Gessner’s “Historiae Animalium” (Zürich 1558) and Ulysse Aldrovani’s “De Piscibus” (Bologna 1613), Hendrikx examined the presentation of the European eagle ray in these books. She explained that the monster illustrations often showed a ray which h...