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Title
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Museum Wormianum
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Caption
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Natural historians like Ole Worm (1588 – 1654) sought to classify and understand the diversity of living organisms according to differences in their appearance in order to better understand God’s design in nature. This frontispiece depicts Worm's famous cabinet of curiosities, a massive collection of artifacts from across the globe, which included taxidermized animals, fossils, and weapons and tools owned by indigenous peoples. Look closely and you’ll notice several species now extinct, including the Great Auk, a seabird that Worm also owned as a pet.
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Creator
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Ole Worm, Villum Worm, Carel van Mander, G. Wingendorp, and Jean Elzevir
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Date Created
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1655
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Publisher
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Apud Iohannem Elsevirium
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Place of Publication
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Lugduni Batavorum Leiden, Netherlands
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Rights
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No Known Copyright
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Bibliographic Citation
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Ole Worm, Villum Worm, Carel van Mander, G. Wingendorp, and Jean Elzevir. Museum Wormianum, seu, Historia rerum rariorum: tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur. Lugduni Batavorum Leiden: Apud Iohannem Elsevirium, 1655. Rare Book QH41 .W6 1655
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Filename
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exh-vanishing_Worm_001.jpeg
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exh-vanishing_Worm_002.jpeg
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exh-vanishing_Worm_003.jpeg
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Case Number
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Understanding Extinction - Species & Human Impacts
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Item Number
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1
