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[-] TomMasz@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

Medieval artists had no trouble depicting animals they had never seen based on a description by a guy who heard it from another guy who had sailed past Africa once. This is pretty good by that standard.

[-] greenhorn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Dürer's rhino is such an impressive instance of that (Wikipedia)

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