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English: Illustrations accompanying Bartholin's commentary on the siren (mermaid) Historiarum anatomicarum II (1654). The upright "siren" in the picture, though appearing female, is that described in the text as "homo marinus (sea-man)" captured in Brazil by merchants of the West India Company, and dissected at Leiden by Petrus Pavius (Pieter Pauw), with Joannes de Laet also present: its "head and the breast even as far as the navil(sic.) was of an humane shape, but.. without the sign of a tail". Bartholin came into possession of the skeletal hand and rib (figures right) through his friend, de Laet.[1][2][3]
Bartholin classified it among Phocae (seals), but it must have been a manatee.[3]
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Source Bartholin, Thomas (1654) "Historia XI. Sirenis seu Marini Hominis Anatome" in (in Latin) Thomae Bartholini historiarum anatomicarum rariorum centuria (I et )II, Copenhagen: typis academicis Martzani, sumptibus Petri Hauboldt bibl., p. 188a
Author Thomas Bartholin

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  1. Bartholin, 1654
  2. Webster, John (1677) "Chap. XV. Of divers Creatures that have a real existence in Nature, and yet by reason of their wonderous properties, or seldom being seen, have been taken for Spirits, and Devils" in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, London: J. M., pp. 285–286
  3. a b Broedel, Hans Peter (2018), “2. The Mermaid of Edam Meets Medical Science: Empiricism and the Marvelous in Seventeenth-Century Zoological Thought”, in Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination[1], Routledge, ISBN 9780429878855

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