gigantosteologia

Updated: May 19, 2025

The gigantic bones have all turned out to be animal remains; even the skeleton twenty-five feet high and ten feet broad, which one savant wrote a book called "Gigantosteologia" to prove human, and another, a counter-argument, called "Gigantomachia," to prove animal, neither of the philosophers taking the trouble to draw a single fragment of the fossil.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861