Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick.

  • Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Date:
1658
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    Of hair upon Molls. Of the fet time cf payring of nails. Of Lions heads upon fpouts and ciferns. Of the faying^ Vngirt unblefi. Of the picture of God the Father. Of the picture ofSun3 Moon, and the Winds. Of the Sun daincing or Eafier day. Of the Silly-How or covering about fome childrens heads. Of being drunly once a moneth. Of the appearing of the devil with a cloven hoof. chap.2\J Of the prediction of theyear} enfuingfrom the infects in Oa\ apples, .That Children would naturally fpeak^Hebrew» Ofrefrainingto kjll Swallows. Of lights burning dimm at the apparition offpirits* Of the wearing of Coral. . ' , Of Modes his Rod in the difcovery of Mines. Of difcovering of doutfull matters by book^ or faff. chap. 22. THE SIXTH BOOK, Concerning fundry Tenents Geographical and Hiftorical. ) the time thereof is not ifely fnown3 as commonly it is prefumed. Chapter.i. Of mens enquiries in what feafon or point of the Zodiacly it began, that as they are generally made they are in vain, and as particularly incer¬ tain. , -- chap.2. Of the divifions of thefeafons, and four quarters of the year, according unto Aflronomers and Phyfitians} that the common compute of the Ana- - ents, and which is. fill retained by fome, is.very quefiionable. chap. 3. Of fame computation of dayes, and d ids cl ions of one part of the year unto another. chap. 4. A Digrepion of the wifdom of God in the fite and motion of the Sun. c.<. Concerning the vulgar opinion, that the earth was fender ly peopled before the flood. - chap.6. • Of Fail and Wejl} and properties refpe&ively afcnbed unto Countries.c.7. Of the feven heads of Nile. ■ . chap.8. Of thegreatnefs of Nile. . - Of its inundation, aud certain time thereof. 'That it never raineth in JLgyft) &c. Of the E.ed Sea. Of the Llacknefs of Negroes. Of the fame. A digrefsion ofBlackytefs. chap. 10. chap, ii'