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Fortunio Liceti
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Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657). De monstrorum caussis, For the Italian physician Fortunio Liceti, true monstrosity inspired wonder and not horror. He criticized the association of monsters with divine wrath, and pointed out that the word 'monster' came from the Latin verb 'monstrare,' meaning 'to show.' Hence, Liceti argued,
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Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657) was an Italian scientist. Events March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for...
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Padua: Gaspar Crivellarius, 1630. 4to. [16],321,[31]pp. Contemp. calf front cover loose,rear hinge opened, binding chipped,duplicate sale stamp from the British Library sale of 1787 on verso of t.p., edges red with title in ms. Large allegorical device on t.p.repeated on b4v,Text woodcuts, 1 full-page.
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Liceti wrote on a variety of topics but had a lifelong interest in embryology. In 1616 he wrote a dissertation on intra-uterine life and changes, De perfecta constitutione hominis in utero, and was the author of the first and most popular treatise on teratology ever published, his De monstrorum, also published in 1616.
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LICETI, Fortunio De ortu animae humanae libri tres. Genoa, Giuseppe Pavoni, 1602...
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It is in two parts, in the first of which is a defense against the attacks of Niccolo Cabeo, and in the second of which is an attack on the theories of Fortunio Liceti.
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And they be half man and half horse, as I have said before. And they eat men when they may take them". A few decades later, Fortunio Liceti's De Monstris (1665) described such freakish hybrids as an elephant-headed man.
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Elephant-headed man from Fortunio Liceti's De Monstris (1665). Pope-ass and other monsters from Fortunio Liceti's De Monstrorum causis natura (1665).
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Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657), also known as Fortunius Licetus, was an Italian scientist. He was born in Rapallo, and studied at the University of Bologna, graduating with doctorates in philosophy and medicine. He then took a position of chair at the University of Pisa. He later returned to Bologna and...
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