1662 Schott Orangutan,hypertrichosis
Bildnummer 11598252
| I 'Hairy man who walks on his hands" & II "wild woman in Java" (can be traced back to Topsell & Gessner's similar images). III & IV "Wild Man Father and son" (Pedro Gonzalez inherited hypertrichosis,see other in this collection for daughter Antoinetta Gonzalez). Copperplate from Gaspar Schott's 'Physica Curiosa,sive mirabilia naturae.' The wild or hairy man of the woods was a recurring theme in early bestiaries and seems to derive from early accounts of the Orang Utan (this central image is closest to the 'Ourang-outang of J. De Bondt,Historiae Naturalis,1658). Gaspar Schott was a Jesuit scholar (1608-1666). He worked with Athanasius Kircher in Rome before returning to Germany in 1655 where he was appointed professor of Mathematics at Augsburg. This work may have been inspired by unfinished elements of Kircher's work and draws together a remarkable array of the real and the imagined | |
| Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
| Credit: | Science Photo Library / Stewart, Paul D. |
| Bildgröße: | 3676 px × 4755 px |
| Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
| Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
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