Uncategorized The Savages say there be Unicorns – How a Unicorn appeared on a French Map from 1546 23 Sep 2016September 23, 2016 On a map created by Frenchman Pierre Desceliers in 1546, a solitary white unicorn appeared situated between Penobscot Bay and Cape Cod. How did it get there? …
Uncategorized Unicorns and the Northwest Passage 2 Sep 2016September 29, 2018 In 1576, Humphry Gilbert published A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia to drum up the political and economic support he needed to raise a venture…
Uncategorized Doubting Unicorns and their Horns 27 Aug 2016September 21, 2016 Thomas Browne was an English physician and author. In 1646, he wrote a book entitled Pseudodoxia Epidemica which he subtitled Inquiries in Vulgar and Common Errors where he tackled topics ranging…
Uncategorized A surgeon’s advice for what to do when you have a patient to treat but you’re fresh out of unicorn horn. 26 Aug 2016August 26, 2016 John Woodall was a surgeon who held a variety of jobs including stocking the medical chests of the ships bound in the service of the East India Company, the army,…
Uncategorized Of the Unicorns of the Temple of Mecca 2 Aug 2016September 21, 2016 This account arrived to me through a circuitous route - and it may be best to trace to the path of the account's publication to contextualize the relation of…
Uncategorized The Unicorn in Laurence Andrew’s The Noble Lyfe / Hortus Sanitatis 1 Aug 2016August 1, 2016 Laurence Andrew (fl. 1510-1537) was a printer and translator active in Antwerp. Not much is known about him and many of the works he translated and/or printed have not survived…
Uncategorized The Unicorn in Clariodus 24 Jul 2016July 25, 2016 Clariodus: A Metrical Romance is a peculiar poem. The author is unknown and the poem was probably based on the French work entitled Cleriadus et Meliadice from c. 1440. The…
