{"id":110,"date":"2015-02-25T02:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=110"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:41:32","slug":"monocerologia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/monocerologia\/","title":{"rendered":"Monocerologia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A practicing physician during the late Renaissance in Northern Germany, Paul Ludwig Sachs drafted this monograph on the unicorn, aiming to prove that the narwhal is the true embodiment of the mythical animal.  Sachs argues that the narwhal&#8217;s tusk is in fact a horn, and not a tooth, possessing the properties attributed to the famed &#8220;alicorn&#8221; of the unicorn.  The text includes testimonies from prominent physicians of his day, who claim to use the horn in their practices, and engravings of sea unicorn anatomy, such as this narwhal skull, which Sachs drew from observation. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Sachs Ratzeburg: Typis Nicolai Nissen, 1676 Engraving Albert E. Lownes Collection of Significant Books in the History of Science, John Hay Library \" class=\"wp-image-111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2-100x180.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2-150x270.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2-200x361.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/SEA_2-300x541.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Monocerologia<br><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:403001\/\">View Monocerologia in the Brown Digital Repository<\/a><br>Paul Sachs<br>Ratzeburg: Typis Nicolai Nissen, 1676<br>Engraving<br>Albert E. Lownes Collection of Significant Books in the History of Science, John Hay Library<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A practicing physician during the late Renaissance in Northern Germany, Paul Ludwig Sachs drafted this monograph on the unicorn, aiming to prove that the narwhal is the true embodiment of the mythical animal. Sachs argues that the narwhal&#8217;s tusk is in fact a horn, and not a tooth, possessing the properties attributed to the famed <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/monocerologia\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Monocerologia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}