u/cserilaz

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"The Whale," a poem with some insight into Anglo-Saxon conceptions of whales (from the Exeter Book)

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u/cserilaz — 9 days ago

"True Likeness of the Beleaguering of Lisbon," an account of the Battle of Alcântara in 1580, starting with a statement from the Secretary of State of Spain at the time (source in comments)

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u/cserilaz — 4 months ago

"A Real, Wondrous, Heretofore Unheard-of Form and Growth," a 1542 leaflet about the grapes that grew a beard (source in comments)

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u/cserilaz — 4 months ago

A leaflet describing fire rain witnessed near the (now-deserted) town of Eckelsheim, Germany in December 1560 (original English translation, German source in comments)

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u/cserilaz — 4 months ago

"The Backe Partes of the II Chyldren," a leaflet describing an abnormal birth in August 1552 (source in comments)

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u/cserilaz — 4 months ago

"Portrayal of a wonder & a petrified baby which was found in the corpse of a woman in the town of Sens on the 16th of May 1582" (an old printing press piece, translated into English by me)

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u/cserilaz — 5 months ago

"An Illustrated Description of the Wondrous Airborne Wars and Ship-Fights of Stralsund" (1665) - my own translation from the German, complete with the original diagram

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u/cserilaz — 5 months ago

The print describing the celestial phenomenon over Basel, Switzerland, translated into English by me

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u/cserilaz — 5 months ago