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<h1><a href="/exhibition/sciencemagicmedicine/index.html">Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter’s World : Magical Creatures "</a></h1>
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<h3><em>The works of that famous surgeon Ambroise Paré</em>, Ambroise Paré, 1634</h3>
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<p style="margin-left: 35px;"><strong><em>All things that we use on earth let us use them for good and not for evil.</em></strong>
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<br>Swiss-German physician and alchemist Paracelsus, 1533<br /></p>
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<p>Although the wizards of <em>Harry Potter</em> value learning and teaching about the world around them, they do not always respect the creatures in it.</p>
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<p>Unicorns are considered sacred and pure creatures that should be used in magic without harming the animal. The evil Lord Voldemort disregards such warnings and cruelly slaughters several for their magical life-giving blood, exposing his disregard for the natural world.</p>
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<p>Merpeople and centaurs, known in the series as “half-breeds,” are forced to live on segregated lands and are subject to laws about which they have no say.</p>
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<p>Several of Harry’s mentors are bothered by the inequalities forced on these beings and feel that wizards could benefit by learning about many different magical cultures. Hogwarts’ headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, employs Firenze, a centaur, to teach Divination, where students learn about reading the future. For many of the young witches and wizards, Professor Firenze is the first centaur they have seen.</p>
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<ul class="slides nojs"><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0044-lg.jpg" alt="Portrait of a man with a ruffled neck piece."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0044-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><em>Ambroise Paré</em>, Giullus Horbeck, 1584</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>The influential French surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), noted for using less invasive procedures than his contemporaries, believed that studying nature was important to understanding the world. Paré believed that everything on earth had been perfectly created, including the odd and unusual creatures he often wrote about in his works.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12392-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and an illustration of a long haired unicorn."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12392-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0045-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=843 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Les oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré</em> (The works of Ambroise Paré), Ambroise Paré, 1633</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Although not wholly convinced the animals existed, the French surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) included unicorns in his writings because of the numerous accounts of sightings and the creatures’ purported medicinal uses. Unicorn horn, such as that of the bihorn species Paré described, was commonly believed to neutralize poisons and many apothecaries claimed to stock it.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0045-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration of a long haired unicorn."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0045-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3>Bihorn species of unicorns from <em>Les oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré</em> (The works of Ambroise Paré), Ambroise Paré, 1633</h3><p>Although not wholly convinced the animals existed, the French surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) included unicorns in his writings because of the numerous accounts of sightings and the creatures’ purported medicinal uses. Unicorn horn, such as that of the bihorn species Paré described, was commonly believed to neutralize poisons and many apothecaries claimed to stock it.</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12391-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of book with Latin text and illustration of a long horned unicorn prancing."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12391-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0022-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset hasjs" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong>
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</h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>In his <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, Konrad Gesner explains that “Stories about the medicinal values of a unicorn’s horn, especially that it is an antidote to poisons, may have originated from similar Asian beliefs about the rhinoceros horn.”</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0022-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration of a long horned unicorn prancing."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0022-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>Unicorn from <em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong></h3><p>In his <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, Konrad Gesner explains that “Stories about the medicinal values of a unicorn’s horn, especially that it is an antidote to poisons, may have originated from similar Asian beliefs about the rhinoceros horn.”</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12393-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and illustration of half-bodied sea creatures."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12393-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0012-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=839" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>The works of that famous surgeon Ambroise Paré</em>, Ambroise Paré, 1634</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0012-lg.jpg" alt="Two half-bodied sea creatures each with two legs and a tail with an upper torso of a man and woman."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0012-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>Merpeople from <em>The works of that famous surgeon Ambroise Paré</em>, Ambroise Paré, 1634</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0004-lg.jpg" alt="A diagram of the human body with smaller images of men to represent zodiac signs."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0004-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0004-detail-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=837 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>A human body and the astrological signs that govern it from <em>Fasciculo de Medicina</em> (Bundle of medicine), Joannes de Ketham, 1493/1494</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0004-detail-lg.jpg" alt="A half-bodied horse with four legs and an upper torso of a man with a bow and arrow."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0004-detail-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3>Centaur from <em>Fasciculo de Medicina</em> (Bundle of medicine), Joannes de Ketham, 1493/1494</h3></div></li>
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<ul class="slides hasjs"><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0044-lg.jpg" alt="Portrait of a man with a ruffled neck piece."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0044-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><em>Ambroise Paré</em>, Giullus Horbeck, 1584</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>The influential French surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), noted for using less invasive procedures than his contemporaries, believed that studying nature was important to understanding the world. Paré believed that everything on earth had been perfectly created, including the odd and unusual creatures he often wrote about in his works.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12392-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and an illustration of a long haired unicorn."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB0045-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration of a long haired unicorn."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12392-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0045-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=843 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Les oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré</em> (The works of Ambroise Paré), Ambroise Paré, 1633</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Although not wholly convinced the animals existed, the French surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) included unicorns in his writings because of the numerous accounts of sightings and the creatures’ purported medicinal uses. Unicorn horn, such as that of the bihorn species Paré described, was commonly believed to neutralize poisons and many apothecaries claimed to stock it.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3>Bihorn species of unicorns from <em>Les oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré</em> (The works of Ambroise Paré), Ambroise Paré, 1633</h3><p>Although not wholly convinced the animals existed, the French surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) included unicorns in his writings because of the numerous accounts of sightings and the creatures’ purported medicinal uses. Unicorn horn, such as that of the bihorn species Paré described, was commonly believed to neutralize poisons and many apothecaries claimed to stock it.</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12391-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of book with Latin text and illustration of a long horned unicorn prancing."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB0022-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration of a long horned unicorn prancing."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12391-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0022-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong>
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</h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>In his <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, Konrad Gesner explains that “Stories about the medicinal values of a unicorn’s horn, especially that it is an antidote to poisons, may have originated from similar Asian beliefs about the rhinoceros horn.”</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3><strong>Unicorn from <em>Historiae Animalium</em> (Studies on animals), Konrad Gesner, 1551</strong></h3><p>In his <em>Historiae Animalium</em>, Konrad Gesner explains that “Stories about the medicinal values of a unicorn’s horn, especially that it is an antidote to poisons, may have originated from similar Asian beliefs about the rhinoceros horn.”</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12393-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and illustration of half-bodied sea creatures."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB0012-lg.jpg" alt="Two half-bodied sea creatures each with two legs and a tail with an upper torso of a man and woman."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12393-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0012-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=839" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>The works of that famous surgeon Ambroise Paré</em>, Ambroise Paré, 1634</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3><strong>Merpeople from <em>The works of that famous surgeon Ambroise Paré</em>, Ambroise Paré, 1634</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0004-lg.jpg" alt="A diagram of the human body with smaller images of men to represent zodiac signs."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB0004-detail-lg.jpg" alt="A half-bodied horse with four legs and an upper torso of a man with a bow and arrow."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0004-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0004-detail-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=837 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>A human body and the astrological signs that govern it from <em>Fasciculo de Medicina</em> (Bundle of medicine), Joannes de Ketham, 1493/1494</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3>Centaur from <em>Fasciculo de Medicina</em> (Bundle of medicine), Joannes de Ketham, 1493/1494</h3></div></li>
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<p style="margin-left: 35px;"><strong><em>All things that we use on earth let us use them for good and not for evil.</em></strong>
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<p>Although the wizards of <em>Harry Potter</em> value learning and teaching about the world around them, they do not always respect the creatures in it.</p>
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<p>Unicorns are considered sacred and pure creatures that should be used in magic without harming the animal. The evil Lord Voldemort disregards such warnings and cruelly slaughters several for their magical life-giving blood, exposing his disregard for the natural world.</p>
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<p>Several of Harry’s mentors are bothered by the inequalities forced on these beings and feel that wizards could benefit by learning about many different magical cultures. Hogwarts’ headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, employs Firenze, a centaur, to teach Divination, where students learn about reading the future. For many of the young witches and wizards, Professor Firenze is the first centaur they have seen.</p>
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