The first printed illustration of sloth will be auctioned as part of the fine for books and manuscripts at Christie's auction house in new york. It appeared at the French Antaktik Singularity in 1557. It was founded by Franciscan friar Andre Tewitt, who joined the French Protestant colony in 1555 to explore Antaktik in Rio de Janeiro today. His manuscripts and woodcuts belong to the cousin of the artist Jean, representing animals, plants and people in Brazil with different degrees of accuracy.
Ryan Nong, a junior book and manuscript expert at Christie's auction house, said: "(This book) is one of these really special books because it is the way of information transmission." . "It's hard not to think about it. For its original owner, this is the most amazing thing you can imagine. It tells you that monsters are real and there is a world you will never know.
They only stayed in Brazil for 10 weeks, and it is reported that his time was shortened because of illness. Although the veterinarian entered the Franciscan monastery at an early age, he did not limit his research to religion. He also read many books about science. Before going to Brazil, he traveled around Europe and further went to Egypt, Lebanon and other places in the Middle East. Therefore, an acknowledged cosmologist who is full of curiosity and enthusiasm for the natural world accepted the invitation of Nicolas Durand de Ville Gagne, a French vice admiral, and took part in the expedition to establish a French colony in Brazil. Manoel da Silva Cardoso wrote in an article written for the United States in 1944:
First, "with his great interest in natural history, he had the opportunity to meet local people, observe lush plants and animals, and collect various items, which must have made him very happy." He "soon gave up" and turned to explore the local terrain with French sailors.
"There are so many firsts in this book, because he was one of the first people to really report and publish these new world creatures with illustrations," Noel said. This book includes some of the earliest descriptions of Tuken, tapirs, bison and cigar smoking.
When they returned to France, they began to study singularities almost immediately. This book became a collection of his own adventures and second-hand knowledge, including a description of South America obtained from French sailors. His writing shows that he has some first-hand experience with sloths, because the description is much more accurate than the illustrations attributed to his cousin. Veterinarians wrote that it was "the size of a very big African monkey" and "three claws and four fingers long". . . It uses it to climb trees, and spends more time in trees than on the ground. Its tail is three fingers long and has little hair. Instead of absorbing some subtle differences, this illustration focuses on the "bear's head" described by the veterinarian as "almost like a baby" and translates it into a bear with long claws and a real face. Nevertheless, the veterinarian still has his own imagination, because he also said that it was "food never seen before" and the locals looked at it "to see if it would eat, but everything was in vain."
He said in the book that he got one as a gift, and he read it for about 20 days. It doesn't eat or drink, which shows that he lives by eating air, just like the chameleon he witnessed in Constantinople. Those sloths live by eating air, which was recorded in Spanish literature before. Alganzalo Fernandez de Oviedo Valdes is one of the earliest people who described sloths in the history of 1526. Because the three-toed sloths in the South American rainforest sleep more than 15 hours a day and eat plants on trees at night, these observers probably didn't observe them eating at all.
The sloth in Singularity depicts a beast with hair standing on end, and it stops in the middle of a big step to show its respect for the reader. Its four feet are balanced, each foot has three claws, and it walks like a sloth that is not found on the earth. Who knows who has seen the video of sloths trying to cross the road? They trip when they crawl on the ground, unlike this furry creature who wanders around.
Walking, baby-faced, air-eating sloths are far from the strangest species among veterinarians. For example, veterinarians also described a beast that might be distorted by opossums or anteaters. Its head and body are like lions. It is said that it uses its thick tail to protect its cubs, who ride on its back when avoiding predators.
This is the earliest French book about the United States in Andre Twigt's Singularity of Antack, France (the file of Brown's early American image in the alien battlefield). This book is very popular, especially because it incorporates the text type of16th century, leads readers to distant places, quickly switches topics, and emphasizes curiosity about these foreign countries. This book has also been borrowed by other writers, hoping to create their own chronicles of global miracles. His works were disseminated in subsequent publications, such as printed telephone games. As the scholars Danielle O.Moreira and Sérgio L.Mendes pointed out in the Chronicle of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the work of veterinarians has been affecting the performance of Europeans for decades after they first published sloths. They wrote that the veterinarian was "the first person to describe a deformed creature called Hart or Hattie", which came from a local word meaning the tree in which it lived. His book Illustration soon appeared in Animal Quadruplets and Oviposition by Swiss naturalist Conrad Geissner (1560) and Belief in the United Nations Navigation by French explorer Jean de Riley (1578). In the book, "sloths are painted on trees, standing on the ground, tormenting the evil of Native Americans.
In the veterinary manuscript, a smaller sloth climbed up the trunk. "But there is a huge one next to you," Noel said. "As a crypt fan, it's hard for me not to immediately think of the giant sloths on the ground and those who believe they still exist." In fact, there is a legendary creature called Mabinguri in the rain forest of South America, and its report lasted until the 20th century, which was theoretically based on the extinct sloth. For European readers, sloths should be huge in size.
/kloc-other authors witnessed live sloths in the 0/7th century. Art historian Larry Silver, Miracle World: Images of Europe, 15 15- 1650, in Georg Marcgraf and Willem Piso's History of Brazil. It is noted that "An accurate sloth is attached to the trunk" is a publication of 1648, based on the experiences of German naturalist Marlgraf and Dutch doctor Pisso in Brazil. In this cover page illustration, Adam and Eve are linked by palm trees, snakes, bearded monkeys and sloths. This illustration explains the Garden of Eden in the Bible through the colonial landscape in Brazil. The whole image implies a fertile land, a place that is said to be unaffected by civilization, ready to accept European control.
The title is Natural History of Brazil by George Magraff and William Piso. A sloth climbed a tree. The French colony they visited was short-lived and was destroyed by the Portuguese in 1567. As more and more specimens and even living animals are transported across the Atlantic by explorers and sailors, the ecology of this area