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Autore |
Paré Ambroise <1510?-1590.> |
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Titolo |
On monsters and marvels / / Ambroise Paré ; translated with an introduction and notes by Janis L. Pallister |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1983 |
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©1982 |
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ISBN |
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9786613058478 |
1-283-05847-2 |
0-226-64561-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations, portraits, plates |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Abnormalities, Human |
Animals - Abnormalities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: Des monstres et prodiges. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Janis L. Pallister; On Monsters and Marvels; Preface; 1. The Causes of Monsters; 2. An Example of the Glory of God; 3. An Example of the Wrath of God; 4. An Example of Too Great a Quantity of Seed; 5. On Women Who Carry Several Children during One Pregnancy; 6. On Hermaphrodites or Androgynes; 7. Memorable Stories about Women Who Have Degenerated into Men; 8. An Example of Lack in the Quantity of Seed; 9. An Example of Monsters That Are Created through the Imagination |
10. An Example of Monsters That Are Created through the Imagination 11. An Example of Monsters That Are Formed, the Mother Having Remained Seated Too Long, Having Had Her Legs Crossed, or Having Bound Her Belly Too Tight While She Was Pregnant; 12. An Example of Monsters Who Are Created, the Mother Having Received Some Blow or Fall, Being Great with Child; 13. An Example of Monsters That Are Created by Hereditary Diseases; 14. An Example of Monstrous Things Which Have Occurred in Accidental Illnesses; 15. Of Stones That Are Engendered in the Human Body |
16. On Certain Monstrous Animals That Are Born Abnormally in the |
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Bodies of Men, Women, and Small Children 17. On Certain Strange Things That Nature Repels through Her Infinite Providence; 18. An Example of Several Other Strange Things; 19. An Example of Monsters Created through Corruption and Putrefaction; 20. An Example of the Mixture or Mingling of Seed; 21. An Example of the Artifice of Wicked Spital Beggars; 22. The Imposture of a Woman Beggar Who Pretended to Have a Canker on Her Breast; 23. The Imposture of a Certain Beggar Who Was Counterfeiting a Leper |
24. About a Hedge-Whore Beggar-Woman Pretending to Be Sick with Saint Fiacre's Disease, and a Long Thick Gut Made by Trickery Came out of Her Bum 25. About a Fat Wench from Normandy, Who Pretended to Have a Snake in Her Belly; 26. An Example of Monstrous Things Done by Demons and Sorcerers; 27. About Those Who Are Possessed of Demons, Who Speak in Various Parts of Their Bodies; 28. How Demons Inhabit Quarries or Mines; 29. How Demons Can Deceive Us; 30. An Example of Several Diabolical Illusions; 31. On the Art of Magic; 32. On Certain Strange Illnesses |
33. On Incubi and Succubi According to Physicians 34. On ""Point-Knotters""; 35. Concerning Marine Monsters; 36. On Flying Monsters; 37. On Terrestrial Monsters; 38. On Celestial Monsters; 39. [On Natural Disasters]; Appendix 1: Items from the ""Discourse on the Unicorn""; Appendix 2: From ""The Book of Tumors""; Appendix 3: From ""The Sicke Womans Private Looking-Glasse""; Suggested Identifications; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Pallister's acclaimed English translation offers a glimpse of the natural world as seen by an extraordinary Renaissance natural philosopher. |
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