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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

wouldn't you? Is that a nose or an arm?

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the first scientific attempts trying to reconstruct fossilized bones to plausible shapes:
https://viralbandit.com/photography/the-worst-fossil-reconstruction-ever-design-you-trust/

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

He truly believed that the collection of fossilized bones belonged to a unicorn. Close to five years just after their discovery, Otto von Geuricke reconstructed the bones into the type in which they are represented right now. Presently the unicorn is housed at the Museum für Naturkunde in Magdeburg, Germany.

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The cave was first mentioned in the records in 1541. In 1686, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz visited the cave and wrote a report about it mentioning the local trade with unicorn artefacts. In those days, fossilized bones supposed to be from unicorns were ground and used for making medicine. In the 17th century, Otto von Guericke, the mayor of Magdeburg, wrote a newspaper article about the finding of some ancient animal bones in the Zeunickenberg, a Harz mountain near Quedlinburg. Based on Guericke’s writings, Leibniz drew a fictional reconstruction of the unicorn's skeleton using the bones that had been found in the cave and published the drawing in his book Protogaea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_Cave

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago

History of early natural sciences is crazy.
Leibniz, the guy who drew this reconstruction of a unicorn, was the same Leibniz that lay groundbreaking work in many scientific fields, including computer science and much of modern calculus, in parallel with his rival Issac Newton.
Speaking of Newton, besides single-handedly inventing a major part of modern physics, he was also a huge fan of alchemy, trying to create the Philosopher's Stone...