Marine counterparts of land creatures
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Marine counterparts of land creatures
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The idea that there are specific marine counterparts to land creatures, inherited from the writers on natural history in Antiquity, was firmly believed in Islam and in Medieval Europe. It is exemplified by the creatures represented in the medieval animal encyclopedias called bestiaries, and in the parallels drawn in the moralising attributes attached to each. "The creation was a mathematical diagram drawn in parallel lines," T. H. White said a propos the bestiary he translated. "Things did not o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_counterparts_of_land_creatures
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2022-11-04T02:43:55Z
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