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Monsters & the Tyranny of Normality.
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- Author(s): Allchin, Douglas
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American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teachers). Feb2008, Vol. 70 Issue 2, p117-119. 3p. 1 Illustration.
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The article provides information on the history of the scientific study of monsters. It states that the growing interest in understanding the development of uncommon specimens such as conjoined twins, hermaphrodites and hydrocephalic babies began in the early 1600s. According to the author, the idea of preternatural composition was the obsession of Frederico Cesi, founder of perhaps the earliest scientific institution called Academia Lincei in Italy. It highlights how biologists including Bernard de Fontenelle, Nicholas Lemery and Johann Wolfgang Goethe interprets anomalous forms.
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