This illustration shows a sloth and is taken from the Historiae Naturalium Brasiliae (Natural History of Brazil). It was first printed in Amsterdam in 1648. The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae was originally written in Latin and is the first scientific work on the natural history of Brazil. Its author was the Dutch naturalist Willem Piso, and it contains research done by the German scientist Georg Marcgraf, published in 1648.
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