The capture of a unicorn, miniature in the manuscript Oxford, Bodl. 533  (13th c.), f. 3r, © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, CC BY-NC 4.0, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/36652b63-d9b1-4480-a88b-769d558bf238/surfaces/6b403dae-4c5f-481c-9fd6-7089e4684a16 . Human imagination builds its most beautiful sandcastles on realities it cannot verify. This is the case with the legend of the unicorn, which centers on a fabulous animal everyone has imagined in their ow

R. Magritte, Le château des Pyrénées  (1959), Israel Museum, Jerusalem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rene_Magritte_-_The_Castle_of_the_Pyrenees.jpg . Throughout history, humankind has sought to understand the world and explore the Earth to its furthest boundaries. In the medieval Christian imagination, this natural curiosity was intertwined with the desire to visit, or at least identify, the Paradise, imagined as a physical space situated at the edge of the world. Cons