{"id":6681,"date":"2010-01-19T02:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T01:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2010-01-19T02:40:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T01:40:56","slug":"schotts-physica-curiosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/19\/schotts-physica-curiosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Schott&#8217;s Physica Curiosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/jmrbr&amp;CISOPTR=170&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=2\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/schott1.jpg\" alt=\"schott1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pages from <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm4\/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&amp;CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOROOT=\/jmrbr&amp;CISOBOX1=Gaspar%20Schott's%20Physica%20Curiosa\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Physica Curiosa<\/em><\/a> (1697) by Gaspar Schott, a collection of natural anomalies and the usual debatable creatures which belong in a fantastic bestiary. Some of these are similar to illustrations from the same period which I&#8217;ve used in Ann &amp; Jeff VanderMeer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/2009\/12\/25\/the-kosher-guide-to-imaginary-animals-coming-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals<\/em><\/a>, due for publication soon by Tachyon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/jmrbr&amp;CISOPTR=188&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=9\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/schott2.jpg\" alt=\"schott2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\" target=\"_self\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages from Physica Curiosa (1697) by Gaspar Schott, a collection of natural anomalies and the usual debatable creatures which belong in a fantastic bestiary. Some of these are similar to illustrations from the same period which I&#8217;ve used in Ann &amp; Jeff VanderMeer&#8217;s Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, due for publication soon by Tachyon. Elsewhere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/19\/schotts-physica-curiosa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Schott&#8217;s Physica Curiosa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,13],"tags":[949,948,142,383],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science","tag-ann-vandermeer","tag-gaspar-schott","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-tachyon-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1JL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}