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Beringer's Lying Stones
Beringer's Lying Stones ("Lügensteine") are pieces of limestone carved into the shape of various animals, discovered in 1725 by Professor Johann Bartholomeus Adam Beringer, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Würzburg. Beringer believed them to be fossils, and because some of them also bore the name of God in Hebrew, suggested that they might be of divine origin. In fact, he was the victim of a hoax, perpetrated on him by his colleagues ex-Jesuit J. Ignatz
The lying stones of Dr. Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer: being his Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis". University of California Press. Translation of: Beringer, Johann; Hueber, George Ludwig (1726). "Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis". Würzburg.
External links.
- Drawings of the "fossils" in Beringer's book
- "Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis" (Latin), Beringer's book, online at the University of Bologna.
- "Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis" - full digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library