{"id":4243,"date":"2022-09-19T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2022\/09\/19\/the-poor-artedi\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:40:43","slug":"the-poor-artedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2022\/09\/19\/the-poor-artedi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Artedi"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]One can’t help but feel compassion for that poor soul called Peter Artedi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Swedish scientist of the eighteenth century, he spent his entire life studying fish species, so much so that he is still today considered as the father of modern ichthyology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Great friend of another eminent scientist and fellow Swede, Carl Linnaeus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Those two shared the fields of action within the emerging science of “naturalism<\/em>“: the latter would have studied the forms of life on earth, and Peter his beloved aquatic creatures.<\/p>\n

But the ironic and cynic fate had in store nothing good for Peter. It was in Amsterdam, where he was completing his research: one evening he was going back home, but slipped and fell into a canal, where he drowned.<\/p>\n

In eternal memory of that tragedy, an English naturalist (George Shaw) wrote:<\/p>\n

Here lies poor Artedi, in foreign land pyx’d
\nNot a man nor a fish, but something betwixt,
\nNot a man, for his life among fishes he past,
\nNot a fish, for he perished by water at last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, enough with the sadness and let’s rejoice with this beautiful photo of two red gurnards and a brill dry-ageing in a INOX BIM<\/strong> climatic cabinet!<\/p>\n

If you want to know more about fish dry-ageing, click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of the Raffil\u00f9 restaurant, in Peschiera, in that beautiful part of the world called Lake Garda![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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