Article: WORLD BOOK DARWIN, CAPT. COOK TAKE VISITORS ON GREAT EXPLORATIONS AT DENVER MUSEUM.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler News Staff Writer

Imagine you're the scholarly type of person living in the late 1600s. You're determinedly interested in the world around you, and fairly well-grounded in what has been written in the natural sciences.

Among the books you may have studied is something called the History of Four-footed Beasts, a 1658 volume replete with illustrated chapters on common domestic animals - think sheep, think ox - as well as more fanciful beings with a man's face and a beast's body.

How would you react to impeccably drawn illustrations of odd marsupials, exotic birds, shiny bugs and, more amazing, people from totally alien ...

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