Author
Ray; Sara ; Giraud; Anne-Sophie ; Kosmin; Jennifer ; Santesmases; Mar�a Jes�s ; Hopwood; Nick ; Rose Holz; Rose ; R�stvik; Camilla M�rk ; Dandona; Jessica M. ; Parry; Manon S.
Year
2024
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Language
English
Pages
24
ISBN
978-1-80543-140-4
Last Update
10-Jan-2026
Keywords
History of Science & Technology ; Health Sciences ; Sociology ; Feminist & Women's Studies ; Film Studies
In the fall of 1776, the German physiologist Caspar Friedrich Wolff wrote to a colleague from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, saying:
The very rich storehouse of monsters that has been collected and preserved over a long series of years in the Imperial museum has now been handed over to me, so that I can compose a description of them and perform anatomies where I decide to. In this therefore it will be necessary to deal once more with both the origin of monsters as well as with generation in general.¹
Wolff’s “storehouse of monsters” was the...
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