Capricornus | Uranographia | Hevelius 1690

The sea-goat — goat's head and shoulders, fish's tail — the mythologically strangest of the zodiac figures. From the Uranographia of Johannes Hevelius (1690). The creature that is neither of the land nor of the sea, that climbs from one world into another, that carries its contradiction as its defining feature. Catalog No. 5110.