How to use lusus naturae in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "lusus naturae" and check conjugation/comparative form for "lusus naturae". Mastering all the usages of "lusus naturae" from sentence examples published by news publications.
" He tells us that Aristotle "deemed a freak a lusus naturae, an aberration of the Natural Ladder.
|
|
From the loathsome lusus naturae of behemoth horror series to the sprawling cosmopolis of complex management simulators, video games often feature wrenched contortions of the natural world as core tenets in environmental design.
|
|
Grotesque made of gold thread on saddle pad, dated from 1600–1650. In the 17th and 18th centuries the grotesque encompasses a wide field of teratology (science of monsters) and artistic experimentation. The monstrous, for instance, often occurs as the notion of play. The sportiveness of the grotesque category can be seen in the notion of the preternatural category of the lusus naturae, in natural history writings and in cabinets of curiosities.
|
|
The book was rediscovered by William Wotton of the Royal Society in 1696 and an English summary became widely available. Scilla was apologetic about being but an untrained artist and the style of writing was commented on by Wotton as lacking art. Scilla argued that his training gave him a painter’s eye with the ability to probe into nature and interpret things better, and depict nature without mediation. Shark teeth and glossopetrae drawn by Scilla Scilla argued that fossils were not lusus naturae, whimsical simulacra of animals and plants created by God or divine Nature.
|
|
Richard Helms, in his account of the Elders Expedition, writes of a case of polydactyly he came across among a people of this region:- > A remarkable lusus naturae was observed among the women of the Frazer Range, > one of whom had six perfect fingers on each hand and the same number of toes > on each foot. Not only were these limbs perfectly formed, but the > corresponding metacarpal and metatarsal bones were also perfect. Two of her > brothers and a sister had, I was told, exactly the same deformity. Norman Tindale identified the tribe here as the Ngadjunmaia.
|
|
In the Nyulnyulan languages of the Western Kimberley, boab trees are called ‘larrgadiy’ (alt. spelling larrgadi) and have considerable mythological significance. The ancient trees are often regarded as cherished individuals with unique personalities. Anthropologist Herbert Basedow was one of the first Europeans to document the Derby Boab Tree. In his 1916 expedition to the Kimberley region, Basedow photographed it and captioned the image as “the hollow trunk of a live baobab used by the aborigines as hut and burial place, Mayhall's well, King Sound”. Basedow (1918) also wrote that: “[t]he natives have long been in the habit of making use of this lusus naturae [freak of nature] as a habitation; it is indeed a dry and comfortable hut”.
|
|
No results under this filter, show 6 sentences.