Tentzel and the elephant in the room. Inconsistencies in the history of nature and history of humans (not) being discussed when 'fossils' were found in Thuringia in 1695.
In 1695 the fossils of a woodland elephant were excavated in Burgtonna (Thuringia). This article deals with the debate between Gotha's court historiographer Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel (1659–1707), who interpreted the discovery as the remains of an elephant, and the collegium medicum of Gotha, that insist...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 351 - 381 |
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