Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths

Sir Thomas Browne

E. Dod, 1658 - Anthropology - 440 pages

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THE FIRST BOOK	1

That men weigh heavier dead then aliveand before meat then after c	6

chap	11

chap	12

Of Gypfies	13

That young Vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam	17

Of the appearing of the devil with a cloven hoof	21

Of the Unicorns horne	23

Of the picture of a Grasshopper	293

Of obftinate adherence unto antiquity	306

THE SIXTH BOOK	333

Of the picture defcribing the death of Cleopatra	342

Offome computation of dayes and diductions of one part of the year unto	350

That it never raineth in Egypt	393

Of the picture of Iohn the Baptiſt in a Camels skin	394

That a Pigeon bath no	397

THE FOURTH BOOK	30

That Porcellane or China dishes lie under the earth an hundred years	57

That the heart of man is feated on the left fides	77

chap 3	163

Of the fecond caufe of popular Errors the erroneous difpofition of	169

THE FIFTH BOOK	232

Of credulity and Supinity	233

Of the fourth finger of our left hand whereon we wear our Rings chap 4	237

That Methuselah must needs be the longest liver of all the posterity of	253

Of swimming that ſome men ſwim naturally that men drowned do float	268

Of Sem Ham and Japhet	286

Of the fame	400

Unto Authority	419

A digression of Blackness	428

Of the Mandrakes of Leah	430

Of the picture of S George	440

Of the ceffation of Oracles	442

Of the woman that conceived in a Bath Of Craffus that never laughed	453

That a Wool first seeing a man begets a dumbness in	8

Of the picture of Jerom	18

Concerning the Loadstone of things particularly spoken thereof evidently	19

Title	Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, Sir Thomas Browne
Author	Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher	E. Dod, 1658
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	Feb 11, 2014
Length	440 pages

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