"Boehringer - a fool."

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18 century. Würzburg (Germany)
Professor Johann Beringer is a few stones on the banks of the Main.
They depict strange creatures and mysterious letter.









He attributes these images hand of God / capricious fabrications of God / and encourages students to seek new stones.
Its collection is growing rapidly and reaches two thousand samples.
The professor is writing a book Lithographia Wirceburgensis / 1726 / where the praises of the Creator.
But when he sends colleagues copies of the book, he found the last stone collection ...

On it an inscription: "Beringer - a fool." Professors played his students
Beringer is trying to buy up all copies and destroy it, but does not have time
The book becomes a bestseller

Scans of the book

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