Image of a blemmyes (1557), from Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon.
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1475e9ca-a392-4167-a151-f21da80e32b7
#exploration #bestiary #faces #deformity #monsters #art #publicdomain
Image of a blemmyes (1557), from Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon.
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1475e9ca-a392-4167-a151-f21da80e32b7
#exploration #bestiary #faces #deformity #monsters #art #publicdomain
#deformity : want of proper form or symmetry
- German: die Deformation
- Italian: deformità
- Portuguese: deformidade
- Spanish: deformidad
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Illustration by Fortunio Liceti, from De monstris (1665).
Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/12d48ee5-3cb0-4d10-b9ca-2352cacc7591
Illustration by Fortunio Liceti, from De monstris (1665).
Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/242c34c1-2146-43e6-9e78-0017f8f2d860
#deformity : want of proper form or symmetry
- German: die Deformation
- Italian: deformità
- Portuguese: deformidade
- Spanish: deformidad
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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!
Illustration by Fortunio Liceti, from De monstris (1665).
Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/38029bfd-a4fd-4c75-a7de-01784fe01b9e
Illustration by Fortunio Liceti, from Fortunius Licetus De Monstris (1665).
Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1a742351-0bc3-465a-842c-f10a8eed6d7c
Illustration by Fortunio Liceti, from Fortunius Licetus De Monstris (1665).
Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/789d730d-e686-4d89-84a5-72dfea39c693
#deformity : want of proper form or symmetry
- German: die Deformation
- Italian: deformità
- Portuguese: deformidade
- Spanish: deformidad
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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!