XXVI \Winged and horned monster resembling Cacus (the giant son of Vulcan), XXVII \"Winged and clawed monster with a bird's clawed foot\", XXVIII \"another winged and horned monster\". Copperplate from Gaspar Schott's 'Physica Curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae.' Gaspar Schott was a Jesuit scholar (1608-1666). He worked with Athanasius Kircher in Rome before returning to Germany in 1655 where he was appointed professor of Mathematics at Augsburg. This work may have been inspired by unfinished elements of Kircher's work and draws together a remarkable array of the real and the imagined. These creatures are considered within the same covers as the Rhinoceros and the Pelican. Most of Shott's images relate to images in Gessner, Topsell and other 16th century authors."