Medieval lore : an epitome of the science, geography, animal and plant folk-lore and myth of the middle age : being classified gleanings from the encyclopedia of Bartholomew Anglicus On the properties of things / edited by Robert Steele ; with a preface by William Morris.

  • Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Medieval lore : an epitome of the science, geography, animal and plant folk-lore and myth of the middle age : being classified gleanings from the encyclopedia of Bartholomew Anglicus On the properties of things / edited by Robert Steele ; with a preface by William Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Works give us into the thought of the past and its desire for knowledge, make a book at once agreeable and useful; and I repeat that it is a hopeful sign of the times when students of Science find themselves drawn towards the historical aspect of the world of men, and show that their minds have been enlarged, and not narrowed, by their special studies, a defect which was too apt to mar the qualities of the seekers into natural facts in what must now, I would hope, be called the just-passed epoch of intelligence, dominated by Whig politics, and the self-sufhciency of empirical Science. WiLLiAM Morris. Vlll