With a striking horn, stout body, lengthy tail and two enormous legs, the so-called Magdeburg Unicorn has been a legend on the internet for years and has haunted the scientific community for centuries.
for not always being forthcoming with his views and was known to change his perception based on his audience. After all, science 400 years ago was a different era of understanding and tended to lean more on the philosophical side. What we would call mathematical sciences today, Leibniz referred to as the “philosophy of imaginable things.”
Found within the chapter, “Concerning the horn of the unicorn and the monstrous animal dug up at Quedlinbury,” is a brief mention of the Magdeburg Unicorn: The drawing published in “Protogaea” had originally been printed in 1704 by Michael Bernhard [Valentini], who drew it from notes and sketches by von Guericke and descriptions by Johann Mayer. The below image was reproduced by Leibniz and published in his 1749 book.
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