Experiment against the powers of the unicorn
Date
30 September 1672
Creator
Salomon Reisel (1624 - 1701, German) , Physician
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Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 193mm
width (page): 154mm
width (page): 154mm
Subject
Description
A figure from a letter by Salomon Reisel, chief physician to Frederick Casimir, Count of Hanau, dated 30 September 1672. It illustrates the antipathy of the unicorn towards the obulus (ancient Greek coin) and its sympathy for bread crumbs, which Reisel doubts. The letter was read to the Royal Society on 11 December 1672.
Transcription
Nulla Unicornu cum obolo Antipathia, neque com mica panis sympathia
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 December 1672, ‘Mr. Schroter produced two letters in Latin to the Society, delivered to him lately in Germany, by one Dr. Salomon Reisel, archiater to Frederic Casimir count of Hanaw, the one dated 20 September, the other 1st October, 1672; the former containing a relation concerning many capital letters found in both sides of a piece of beech-tree, cleft asunder, between the pith and bark; the latter discoursing about some vulgar errors. Which letters were ordered to be entered in the Letter-book’ (Birch 3:69).
A similar figure is printed in Miscellanea Curiosa, 2 (1671), Observatio 111, p. 184.
A similar figure is printed in Miscellanea Curiosa, 2 (1671), Observatio 111, p. 184.
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