Marvels and wonders
Marvels and wonders. Early modern European writers used the terms maravilla or preguntarse to refer to a well-defined body of unusual phenomena that included things such as comets, volcanoes, conjoined twins, magnets, rains of stone, and petrifying springs. These phenomena, a grouping inherited from medieval sources, lay between the commonplace and the absolutely miraculous. Unlike … Leer más