Miscellaneous tracts and collections relating to natural history, selected from the principal writers of antiquity on that subject / by W. Falconer, M. D.

Cambridge : Printed by J. Archdeacon and J. Burges, Printers to the University; for J. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge; T. Cadell, in the Strand, B. & J. White, in Fleetstreet, J. Deighton, No. 325. High Holborn, G. & T. Wilkie, Thomas Evans, No. 46. and James Evans, No. 32. Paternoster Row, London, 1793.

6 unnumbered pages, v, 1 unnumbered page, 203 pages, 1 unnumbered page

The "Addenda et corrigenda" leaf is after the titlepage.

Contents: "Calendar of natural occurrences in ancient Greece, commencing with the summer solstice. Extracted from Aristotle, Theophrastus, Geminus, Pliny, and others. Calculated principally for Athens, Lat. 37o. 25'. N.L. Adjusted to the ancient solar year, and to the modern computations of time".-- "Calendar of natural occurrences, collected from the ancient Roman authors, those particularly that treat of agriculture. Calculated for the climate of Italy, and particularly for that of Rome, Lat. 41o. 45'. Adjusted to the modern computations of time". --"Kalendarium antiquum rusticum, quod in Palatio Novo Farnesiano Romae, adservatur. Ex inscript. antiquis Iani Gruteri desumptum". -- "Tabula plantarum. In priscis scriptoribus Graecis maxime repertarum: cui adjiciuntur synonyma ab illustri Casparo Bauhino, et Carolo Linnaeo edita. Ea porro, quae in vulgari usu, lingua vernacula, accipiuntur" . --"Tabula altera: in qua, plantae Graecis cognitae iterum recensentur: cum nominibus, a Carolo Linnaeo assignatis, praefixis; et synonymis Graecis adjunctis". --Index of the natural occurences in the ancient Greek calendar. --Index of the natural occurences in the ancient Roman calendar

ESTC, T60465

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