{"id":7514,"date":"2010-08-03T02:24:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2010-08-03T02:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:24:22","slug":"licetis-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/03\/licetis-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Liceti&#8217;s monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bium.univ-paris5.fr\/monstres\/debut2.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/liceti1.jpg\" alt=\"liceti1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Illustrations from <em>De monstrorum natura, caussis, et differentiis libri duo<\/em> (<em>On the nature, causes and differences of monsters<\/em>, 1616) by Italian scientist Fortunio Liceti who we&#8217;re told has a crater on the Moon named after him. Further images from Liceti and his contemporaries can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bium.univ-paris5.fr\/monstres\/debut2.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Les Monstres de la Renaissance \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e2ge classique<\/em><\/a>, an online exhibition of assorted teratisms, prodigies and abominations. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BibliOdyssey\/status\/19968956502\" target=\"_blank\">Monsieur Peacay<\/a>, no monster he.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bium.univ-paris5.fr\/monstres\/debut2.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/liceti2.jpg\" alt=\"liceti2.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>Illustrations from De monstrorum natura, caussis, et differentiis libri duo (On the nature, causes and differences of monsters, 1616) by Italian scientist Fortunio Liceti who we&#8217;re told has a crater on the Moon named after him. Further images from Liceti and his contemporaries can be found at Les Monstres de la Renaissance \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e2ge classique, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/03\/licetis-monsters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liceti&#8217;s monsters&#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":[2,30,42,21,48,13],"tags":[1596],"class_list":["post-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-science","tag-fortunio-liceti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514","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=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}