XII \Infant whose arms are transposed\", XIII \"infant with deformed head\", XIV \"double bodied monster\". Copperplate from Gaspar Schott's 'Physica

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XII \Infant whose arms are transposed\", XIII \"infant with deformed head\", XIV \"double bodied monster\". Copperplate from Gaspar Schott's 'Physica Curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae.' Gaspar Schott was a Jesuit scholar (1608-1666). He worked with Athanasius Kircher in Rome before returning to Germany in 1655 where he was appointed professor of Mathematics at Augsburg. This work may have been inspired by unfinished elements of Kircher's work and draws together a remarkable array of the real and the imagined."

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