Topsell, in his Historie of Serpents, 1608, does not add much to Sea-Serpent lore, but he adds the picture of…
- Date of account
- Published 1890
- Source
- Curious Creatures in Zoology
- Reference
- Curious Creatures in Zoology · selected passage 53
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
Topsell, in his Historie of Serpents, 1608, does not add much to Sea-Serpent lore, but he adds the picture of another kind of Serpent, as does also Aldrovandus, whose illustration I give
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyTopsell, in his _Historie of Serpents_, 1608, does not add much to Sea-Serpent lore, but he adds the picture of another kind of Serpent, as does also Aldrovandus, whose illustration I give. (See p. 272.) Erik Pontoppidan, Bishop of Bergen, in his _Natürlichen Historie von Norwegen_, gives a picture of the Sea-Serpent, somewhat similar to that previously given by Hans Egede, “the Apostle of Greenland.” (See next page.) Pontoppidan tried to sift the wheat from the chaff, in connection with the Natural History of the North, but he was not always successful. He gives several cases, one seemingly very well authenticated, of the appearance of Sea-Serpents.
Historical context
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Modern context
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