Lev decides to join Elias in his specimen study—Lev is not as familiar with natural philosophy and field-work as he is with medical necromancy and pharmacy, but he's not completely ignorant ... but his knowledge is idiosyncratic to say the least. It's not that it's completely inaccurate, it's just that for every fact that's recognizable as the cutting edge of early 20th Century or maybe late 19th Century biology, he knows five from Classical and Talmudic sources. He seems to have about the same amount of skepticism regardless of source, which is reasonable back home—Vegetable Lambs do exist, and the takhash is a unicorn—but on the other hand, if you showed him a duck-billed platypus, he would assume it's a demon or some kind of especially bizarre genius loci, instead of assuming it's a clever taxidermy fake or a guinea pig dressed up for Purim.
He's good at taking notes, however, and he listens carefully to Elias's explanations.
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Lev decides to join Elias in his specimen study—Lev is not as familiar with natural philosophy and field-work as he is with medical necromancy and pharmacy, but he's not completely ignorant ... but his knowledge is idiosyncratic to say the least. It's not that it's completely inaccurate, it's just that for every fact that's recognizable as the cutting edge of early 20th Century or maybe late 19th Century biology, he knows five from Classical and Talmudic sources. He seems to have about the same amount of skepticism regardless of source, which is reasonable back home—Vegetable Lambs do exist, and the takhash is a unicorn—but on the other hand, if you showed him a duck-billed platypus, he would assume it's a demon or some kind of especially bizarre genius loci, instead of assuming it's a clever taxidermy fake or a guinea pig dressed up for Purim.
He's good at taking notes, however, and he listens carefully to Elias's explanations.