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1. voyaging in the 15th-16th century
2. Durer's rhinoceros (1515)
3. alligator in a chapel late 1500s, ostrich egg (early 1200s)
4. porcupine fish (Aldrovandi Museum)
5. curiosity cabinets
6. odditeis from China
7. griffin claw?
8. unicorn horn?
9. werewolf man from Teneriffe?
10. printing and copying (and miscopying?)
11. fraudulent dragon (Aldrovandi)
    
    Olaus Magnus, Carta Marina (1539)
12. anchoring on a giant fish?
13. Ursa alba? (white bear)
14. sea monster? (labeled Balena, attached by Orca)
15. Ziphius?
16. sea-unicorn, fish with wings? sea-boar? sea serpent?
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    Ambroise Paré, Of Monsters and Prodigies (1575)
18. elephant, toucan, sea elephant (walrus)
19. sea-devil, sea-horse, dog-child
20. man with another issuing from his torso? (and 1516 print by Hans Burgkmair)
21. Jean-Jacques LIbbera & Laloo Ramparsad
22. conjoined twins & Blazek sisters
23. two-headed monster?
24. Abigail & Brittany Hensel
25. monster of Ravenna
26. monster of Krakow (1559)
27. Cranach: the monk-calf
28. Petrus Gonsalus and his son and daughter
29. Stephen Bibrowski (1907)

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