#15 - International Unicorn Day

In honor of International Unicorn Day, here's a chance to explore the search for the real unicorn, from the mystery in Middle Ages to its ultimate discovery in the seventeenth century.

 Sources 

  

Anonymous. Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Ole Worm. Museum Wormianum. 1655. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-104022.

Thomas Bartholin. De Unicornu. Padua, 1645.

Sir Thomas Browne. Pseudodoxia, or Vulgar Errors. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudodoxia.shtml.

Francine Prose. “What We Aren’t Seeing.” The Paris Review (blog), September 18, 2020. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/09/18/what-we-arent-seeing/.

“The Travels of Marco Polo/Book 3/Chapter 9 - Wikisource, the Free Online Library.” Accessed April 9, 2023. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo/Book_3/Chapter_9.