The Great Sea SerpentCosimo, Inc., 1. aug. 2007 - 444 sider Mysterious and strange are the ocean depths, but pioneering cyptozoologist ANTOON CORNELIS OUDEMANS (1858-1943) attempted to bring some order to the realm with this 1892 survey of the reports of monsters of the sea, the first of its kind. Gathering sightings from around the globe and across the centuries, Oudemans eliminates the obvious hoaxes or honest mistakes and then, from dozens of legitimate sighting, draws conclusions about sea-serpent physiology, geographic distribution, and more. This astonishing book "still influences thoughts and theories about the great unknowns in the oceans," says cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction in this edition, part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. |
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... fins on their backs , may have given rise to those parts of the narrations , not already herein commented upon . " Professor Silliman , the editor of the journal , could not help saying in a note : " We give place to the scepticism of ...
... fins on their backs , may have given rise to those parts of the narrations , not already herein commented upon . " Professor Silliman , the editor of the journal , could not help saying in a note : " We give place to the scepticism of ...
Side 35
... - shaped , without visible fins and apparently covered with scales , the back full of joints or bunches , the head and beak resembled an alligator's , the former 10 feet long , and as big as a hogshead . A Cheats and Hoaxes 35.
... - shaped , without visible fins and apparently covered with scales , the back full of joints or bunches , the head and beak resembled an alligator's , the former 10 feet long , and as big as a hogshead . A Cheats and Hoaxes 35.
Side 49
... fin , which can expand in fan - shape three feet across , or close in a sheath . Double rows of fins are alternately placed along the belly . The head is most singular . The eyes are large , staring and terrific , with a transparent ...
... fin , which can expand in fan - shape three feet across , or close in a sheath . Double rows of fins are alternately placed along the belly . The head is most singular . The eyes are large , staring and terrific , with a transparent ...
Side 53
... fins on its back , and the body of a yellow greenish colour , with brown spots all over the upper part and underneath white . The whole crew were looking at it for fully ten minutes before it moved away . It was about six feet in ...
... fins on its back , and the body of a yellow greenish colour , with brown spots all over the upper part and underneath white . The whole crew were looking at it for fully ten minutes before it moved away . It was about six feet in ...
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... fins , shaped like paws , and jointed . The body was unluckily knocked to pieces by a tempest ; but the fragments have been collected by Mr. Laing , and are to be transmitted to the Museum at Edinburgh . Mr. Neill concluded with ...
... fins , shaped like paws , and jointed . The body was unluckily knocked to pieces by a tempest ; but the fragments have been collected by Mr. Laing , and are to be transmitted to the Museum at Edinburgh . Mr. Neill concluded with ...
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The Great Sea-serpent: An Historical and Critical Treatise Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2007 |
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Side 96 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Side 96 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Side 218 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Side 210 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
Side 15 - The Journal of Science • and the Arts, edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, published quarterly, Bd.
Side 221 - I had never seen his account, or even heard of his sea-serpent, until my arrival in London. Some other solution must therefore be found for the very remarkable coincidence between us in that particular, in order to unravel the mystery. " Finally, I deny the existence of excitement or the possibility of optical illusion. I adhere to the statements, as to form, colour, and dimensions, contained in my official report to the Admiralty, and I leave them as data whereupon the learned and scientific may...
Side 252 - S., long. 35° W., we observed three large sperm - whales, and one of them was gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a huge serpent. The head and tail appeared to have a length beyond the coils of about thirty feet, and its girth eight or nine feet.