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Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places |
Sources
| Aldrovanus (Ulissi Aldrovandi) | Italian
1522-1605 |
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| Aristotle | Greek | Father of Zoology |
| Sir Thomas Brown | English
1605-1682 |
Wrote Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors in 1646 |
| Gesner (Konrad Gesner) | Swiss
1516-1565 |
Wrote Historia Animalum |
| Herodotus | Greek
@ 500 b.c. |
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| Homer | Greek
@ 850 b.c. |
Wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey |
| (Saint) Isidore of Seville | @560-636 | Spanish scholar, wrote Etymologiae |
| Josephus (Josephus Flavius) | From Jerusalem
@ 37-100 a.d. |
Jewish historian. |
| The Speculum Regale | Norweigan | Written @1250 A.D., also called the King's Mirror . |
| Mandeville (Sir John Mandeville) | @1360-70 | Unknown traveler. Wrote Travels of Sir John Mandeville (in French.) |
| Marco Polo | Italian (from Venice)
1254-1324 |
Among the first Europeans to visit China and the Orient. Wrote Travels of Marco Polo |
| Olaus Magnus | Sweden
early 1500's |
Mapmaker |
| Physiologus | Egyptian or Greek?
200-500 a.d. |
Unknown writer, wrote The Physiologus, which was a very widely copied and circulated manuscript. It was translated into many languages. |
| Pliny (the elder) | Greek
23-79 a.d. Died observing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
Wrote Natural History (37 volumes)
Quoted as saying: "The only certainty is that nothing is certain." |
| Pomponius Mela | Spaniard, a contemporary and source for Pliny. | Wrote his Description of the World @ 43-44 A.D. |
| Topsell, Edward | Wrote History of Four-Footed Beasts in 1607. Link to text |
A Short report on the history of mythology and the natural sciences.
