On Monsters and Marvels
by Ambroise Pare
translated by Janis L. Pallister
University of Chicago Press, 1983
Cloth: 978-0-226-64562-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-64563-6 | eISBN: 978-0-226-64561-2 (all)
Library of Congress Classification QM691.P3713 1982
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.022
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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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