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<h1><a href="/exhibition/sciencemagicmedicine/index.html">Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter’s World : Monsters"</a></h1>
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<h3><em>Les oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré</em> (The works of Ambroise Paré), Ambroise Paré, 1633</h3>
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<p style="margin-left: 35px;"><strong><em>I heard that on the edge of Germany near Styria, many flying four-legged serpents resembling lizards appeared, winged, with an incurable bite…</em></strong>
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<br>Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner, 1551<br /></p>
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<p>At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, Harry Potter learns magic spells, charms, and potions. He is taught about the natural world and its uses. This knowledge helps Harry and his friends survive adventures and defeat the villainous Lord Voldemort.</p>
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<p>Armed with information about the basilisk, Harry knows to avoid its fatal stare and to use its highly venomous fangs to destroy fragments of Voldemort’s soul. When Harry encounters a dragon in the Triwizard Tournament, he knows from his studies to have respect for the creature, which guarantees the young wizard’s survival.</p>
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<p>Although they consider dragons dangerous creatures, wizards have created nature reserves with specialized caregivers to ensure the creatures can thrive without harming people. Dragons also have valuable magical traits—various parts are commonly used in potions and their heartstrings often compose the magical core of wands.</p>
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<ul class="slides nojs"><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12381-lg.jpg" alt="Portrait of bearded man wearing a cap."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12381-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="/exhibition/sciencemagicmedicine/education/onlineactivities00.html" target="_blank" class="explore" data-text="Explore Interactive">Explore Interactive</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>Konrad Gesner from<em> Konrad Gessner als Gärtner</em> (Konrad Gesner as a gardener), Diethelm Fretz, 1948</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Like Harry Potter’s fictional professors, 16th-century Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner appreciated the knowledge gained by studying nature.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12384-lg.jpg" alt="Title of a book in Latin text with an illustrated crest of lions."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12384-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/Gesnergallery.htm " target="_blank" class="explore" data-text="Explore Interactive">Explore Interactive</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p><em>Historiae Animalium</em> is Konrad Gesner’s most well-known work and is considered one of the first examples of modern zoology. Unique to its time, the book includes not only Greek and biblical descriptions of animals, but also information Gesner gained from dissection.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12383-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book showing Latin text and a serpent with an arrow as a tongue."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12383-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0020-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset hasjs" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li><li><a href="https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/Gesnergallery.htm " target="_blank" class="explore" data-text="Explore Interactive">Explore Interactive</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Like many of his contemporaries, Konrad Gesner believed that basilisks and dragons existed, and he catalogued their medicinal uses, alongside those of their reptile cousin, the snake.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0020-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration of a serpent with an arrow as a tongue."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0020-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3>Basilisk from <em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551
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</h3><p>Like many of his contemporaries, Konrad Gesner believed that basilisks and dragons existed, and he catalogued their medicinal uses, alongside those of their reptile cousin, the snake.</p>
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</div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12395-lg.jpg" alt="Page of book with Latin text and illustration of man at a table next to a serpent and tree."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12395-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0021-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset hasjs" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=826 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>About 50 years after <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> was published, Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner wrote about dragon fat’s success against “creeping ulcers” and viper flesh’s effectiveness in theriac, a poison antidote and cure-all commonly used until the late 19th century.</p>
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<p>“Theriac even promises to make old age more peaceful, life longer, and one’s health more stable …”— Konrad Gesner, <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, 1551</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0021-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration from page of a man at a table next to a serpent and tree."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0021-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3>Apothecary mixing theriac from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</h3><p>About 50 years after <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> was published, Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner wrote about dragon fat’s success against “creeping ulcers” and viper flesh’s effectiveness in theriac, a poison antidote and cure-all commonly used until the late 19th century.</p>
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<p>“Theriac even promises to make old age more peaceful, life longer, and one’s health more stable …”— Konrad Gesner, <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, 1551</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12388-lg.jpg" alt="Title page of a book."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12388-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=831" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>The Natural History of Pliny</em>, Pliny the Elder, translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley, 1855</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Roman scholar, natural philosopher, and author Pliny the Elder compiled this extensive study of the natural world into the first known encyclopedia, <em>Natural History</em> or <em>Historia Naturalis</em>.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li>
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<ul class="slides hasjs"><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12381-lg.jpg" alt="Portrait of bearded man wearing a cap."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12381-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="/exhibition/sciencemagicmedicine/education/onlineactivities00.html" target="_blank" class="explorelink" data-text="Explore Interactive">Explore Interactive</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>Konrad Gesner from<em> Konrad Gessner als Gärtner</em> (Konrad Gesner as a gardener), Diethelm Fretz, 1948</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Like Harry Potter’s fictional professors, 16th-century Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner appreciated the knowledge gained by studying nature.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12384-lg.jpg" alt="Title of a book in Latin text with an illustrated crest of lions."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12384-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/Gesnergallery.htm " target="_blank" class="explorelink" data-text="Explore Interactive">Explore Interactive</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p><em>Historiae Animalium</em> is Konrad Gesner’s most well-known work and is considered one of the first examples of modern zoology. Unique to its time, the book includes not only Greek and biblical descriptions of animals, but also information Gesner gained from dissection.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3>Basilisk from <em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</h3></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12383-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book showing Latin text and a serpent with an arrow as a tongue."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB0020-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration of a serpent with an arrow as a tongue."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12383-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0020-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li><li><a href="https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/Gesnergallery.htm " target="_blank" class="explorelink" data-text="Explore Interactive">Explore Interactive</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Like many of his contemporaries, Konrad Gesner believed that basilisks and dragons existed, and he catalogued their medicinal uses, alongside those of their reptile cousin, the snake.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3>Basilisk from <em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551
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</h3><p>Like many of his contemporaries, Konrad Gesner believed that basilisks and dragons existed, and he catalogued their medicinal uses, alongside those of their reptile cousin, the snake.</p>
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</div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12395-lg.jpg" alt="Page of book with Latin text and illustration of man at a table next to a serpent and tree."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB0021-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration from page of a man at a table next to a serpent and tree."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12395-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0021-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=826 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>About 50 years after <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> was published, Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner wrote about dragon fat’s success against “creeping ulcers” and viper flesh’s effectiveness in theriac, a poison antidote and cure-all commonly used until the late 19th century.</p>
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<p>“Theriac even promises to make old age more peaceful, life longer, and one’s health more stable …”— Konrad Gesner, <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, 1551</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3>Apothecary mixing theriac from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</h3><p>About 50 years after <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> was published, Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner wrote about dragon fat’s success against “creeping ulcers” and viper flesh’s effectiveness in theriac, a poison antidote and cure-all commonly used until the late 19th century.</p>
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<p>“Theriac even promises to make old age more peaceful, life longer, and one’s health more stable …”— Konrad Gesner, <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, 1551</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12388-lg.jpg" alt="Title page of a book."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12388-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=831" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>The Natural History of Pliny</em>, Pliny the Elder, translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley, 1855</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Roman scholar, natural philosopher, and author Pliny the Elder compiled this extensive study of the natural world into the first known encyclopedia, <em>Natural History</em> or <em>Historia Naturalis</em>.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"></div></li>
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<p style="margin-left: 35px;"><strong><em>I heard that on the edge of Germany near Styria, many flying four-legged serpents resembling lizards appeared, winged, with an incurable bite…</em></strong>
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<br>Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner, 1551<br /></p>
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<p>At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, Harry Potter learns magic spells, charms, and potions. He is taught about the natural world and its uses. This knowledge helps Harry and his friends survive adventures and defeat the villainous Lord Voldemort.</p>
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<p>Armed with information about the basilisk, Harry knows to avoid its fatal stare and to use its highly venomous fangs to destroy fragments of Voldemort’s soul. When Harry encounters a dragon in the Triwizard Tournament, he knows from his studies to have respect for the creature, which guarantees the young wizard’s survival.</p>
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<p>Although they consider dragons dangerous creatures, wizards have created nature reserves with specialized caregivers to ensure the creatures can thrive without harming people. Dragons also have valuable magical traits—various parts are commonly used in potions and their heartstrings often compose the magical core of wands.</p>
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