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# Birthday of the 16th-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi and his works on monsters
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/segodnia-den-rozhdeniia-vydaiushchegosia-naturalista-xvi-veka-ulissa-aldrovandi/
- Published: 2016-09-11T14:45:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:06:06.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Books, Science, People, Humour

Today is the birthday of the eminent sixteenth-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. At this rate we shall soon be learning the natural sciences exclusively from the textbooks of those years: with mermaids, memory of the womb and man-eating trees