Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and...
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This frontispiece by Ole Worm titled Ole Worm’s Cabinet of Wonder: Natural Specimens and Wondrous Monsters is an engraving depicting various animal taxidermy...
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Runicus - was published in 1626 by the Danish physician and antiquarian Ole Worm (Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654). The text consists of the 12 calendar pages...
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politician Ole Stavad, Danish politician Ole Svendsen, Danish boxer Ole Tinghaug, Norwegian politician Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary Eduard Ole (1898–1995)...
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manuscript, originally from 1328, but collected and published by the Dane Ole Worm (1588–1654), uses this futhark notation, and not the pentadic numerals...
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the horn holds magical and medicinal properties. The Danish physician Ole Worm determined in 1638 that the alleged alicorns were the tusks of narwhals...
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Olaus Wormiaus (Ole Worm) in his posthumous Museum Wormianum (1654) and by another Dane, Thomas Bartholin the senior (1657). Ole Worm classed it as the...
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January – The Treaty of Knäred is signed, officially ending the Kalmar War. Ole Worm returns to Denmark joining the University of Copenhagen. Kindleberger,...
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In Scandinavia, the 17th-century Danish scholars Thomas Bartholin and Ole Worm and the Swede Olaus Rudbeck used runic inscriptions and Icelandic sagas...
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grew in spring. This description was contradicted by natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed that...
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