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Hi Dominique,
I am so very sorry for the protracted delay in finishing this short piece, shallunderstand if you no longer wish to use it. My 'excuses' include illness,relationship termination, depression, xmas , snow and laziness !
I had hoped that the whole essay would be of use to you, using my name inassociation with Browne would have resulted in far greater 'hits' for yourweb-site. I've entrusted you (the long essay) with what i consider to be a quitean original piece of lengthy research and interpretation, what will you do withit? Delete or be discreet?
Looking at the number of sponsers listed on your web-site amazes me. I've beeninvolved in promoting and studying Browne for 14 years now and have never hadthat much luck in attracting sponsership, having to do everything off my own batso to speak.
Did you look at my other on-line essays? (Just type sir thomas browne kevinfaulkner into google to find them).
Please , please don't forget me should anything else come up about Browne as heis my primary artistic project. From a visual imaginative aspect the Museumtract is well worth developing, Sebald brought it to prominence in 'The Rings ofSaturn' . Be careful not to stray too far from facts ! People do have atendency to mould Browne into their own artistic perspective/ideological stance.
Reading Religio gives a great psychological insight into the man whilePseudodoxia has many instances of B's sly hiumour. Not entirely convinced thatfragility is a particular theme of Browne's, Kristof's 'expert witness'statement unravels years of attempting to keep the witch-trial in proportion.But if you look at the other major works there is some dodgy non PC stuffincluding a very dangerous statement about Islam in Religio Medici, a product ofhis times maybe, but also a real incendenary quotation in the wrong hands.
Am still writing a book on him from an esoteric perspective. Some interestingconnections to Kabbalah and Thomas Vaughan, for example Vaughan describes theprima materia of the alchemists as the 'couch of Venus' in Cyrus one reads of'the bed of Cleopatra'.
Hope that the attached pics can be used, but if you feel that you no longer wishto edit in html anymore okay.
Hoping we meet again in warmer times! Cannot resist these two topical quotes
'Miseries are slippery,or fall like snow upon us' and 'which maketh Pyramidspillars of snow' both from chapter 5 Urn-Burial
All the very best Kevin.
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would do) then all cautions and convictions would show. THis is because the employer is allowedfull access to your record as the positions you are applying for are exempt from the rehabilitationof offenders act 1974. Therefore they are allowed to take into consideration anything that showson a CRB check, however if they are happy with your explanation as to why it occured and why itwould not occur again then there is no reason as to why you would not get the job.Make sure you inform the empolyer of your record before they get the disclosure back, this wayyou look a more honest and trustworthy candidate but you can also put the offences into context.Address issues such as relevance of the offence, seriousness of it, how long ago it was,circumstances at the time and change of circumstances since then. Reassure the empolyer thatyou do not pose a present day risk. If your conviction is spent then you would not have to disclosethis for jobs that do not involve a CRB.I have attached our guide on applying for work with a criminal record.I hope this is helpful.
I aquired my very own copy of Sir Thomas Browne's vast catalogue of refuted errors PseudodoxiaEpidemica: or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly Presumed Truths(1646) via an ebay auction in March 2006. It's providence was from charlottesville, Loiusiana. Nocopies surivie of publications of Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus but amazingly appended to
this edition of Pseudodoxia is . The Discourses open with the two dedicatory epistles first,following each other, strong evidence that its author intentended the two Discourses to be readand meditated upon jointly. Pseudodoxia was in fact one of the earliest, if not the first, of themany an early european encyclopedia which contributed to the 17th century scientific revolution.Although to us today with our vastly increased scientific knowledge , Pseudodoxia may itselfcontain 'vulgar' or common errors itself in other ways modern readers Pseudodoxia (also knownas Vulgar Errors)prepared a readership for much of the way for popular scientific journalismsubsequently published in England. . In its day Pseudodoxia Epidemica was a best-seller andwas placed upon the shelves of many English households. It was published in no less than sixeditions (1646,1650,1658 twice,1659 and 1672) and translated into several European languages.
Appendiced to Browne's encyclopaedia is a so-called An Alphabetical Table. In all probability thisindex was compiled by Browne. It has never previously before been published in any edition of
Browne's works , so is available here for the very first time. And just as Jore borges Loncedeclared to write vast books is a laborious ., a quick scroll down of the topics listed here soon thebreadth and depth of Browne's curiousity, knowledge and scientific investigation. whichindicates the wide spectrum of subjects covered in its pages.the Index lists his main sources asauthors commended, his many experiments as well as the astronomical, historical, biblical andzoological queries which preoccupied him . Queries range from the cosmological such as'Cosmographers, why they divide their Globe into East and West', to the theological - 'whether ourB. Saviour ever laughed', to the aesthetic '-Beauty- Determined chiefly by opinion, or the severalapprehensions of people', to the medical '-Drunkenness, or to be drunk once a moneth, whether itbe healthfull', to the revealing esoteric entry ,'-Philosophers Stone, not improbable to be procured'. However an entry such as, 'Abilities, (scientifical especially,) ought to be improved' and' Candle,one discharged out of a Musket through an inch board', are indicative of the empirical nature ofBrowne's essentially Baconian quest.
Page numbers by entry refer to the 1658 fourth edition and will be replaced by standardised Bookand Chapter listings of modern editions shortly.
pp. 1 - pp. 51 Book 1
pp.53 - pp.118 Book 2
pp. 119 -pp. 228 Book 3
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pp.229 - pp.284 Book 4
pp. 285 - pp. 331 Book 5
pp. 333 - pp. 417 Book 6
pp.419 - pp.468 Book 7
Source : 1658 edition of Pseudodoxia Epidemica
An alphabeticall Table
Abel, his Epitaph, and age at death.424
Abilities, (scientifical especially,) ought to be improved. 20
Abraham. 328,406
Absolo, how hanged. 441
Abstinence from meat how (possibly) prolonged by some animals. 201
Abundance of flyes, magots, what they signifie. 113
Accubation, the ancient gesture at meals. 293,294
Achitphel how he might dies. 441
Adam. 2,3,169,184,242,292,334,273
Adams Navel 292
How elder then Methusalah 224
Adrian the Emperour 28
Aegypt, how primitively it became firm land. 335
How called anciently 376
Subject to rain. 392
Aegyptians 335
Their antiquity. 336
Aegyptian Pollinctors, or anointers of the dead, their prodigous carnality. 446
Aelian, his Character, 22,33
Aequator. 354
Aequinoxes their Anticipation. 270
Aequvocation. 14
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Aschylus his death. 463
Aetnas, or fiery hills. 391
Age of our B. Saviour. 342
Age of the world. 332
Agriculture. 349,350
Advent of Christ. 342
Air. 199
Albertus Magnus his Character. 35
Aldrovandus, his diligence commended. 258
Alexander. 307
Allegorical precepts of Pythagoras. 14
Almonds not good against drunkeness. 113
Alphonsus Duke of Ferrara, his power. 99
Alvarez a Jesuit. 102
Amber how engenderd. 91
Ambodexters. 239,242
America, 70
Amphibologie. 14
Amphisbana? 177
Amulets. 95
Amulets against Agues. 330
Analogie, or correspondence betwixt the globes coelestial and terrestial. 350
Anchovy. 143
Andes, a hill in Peru. 390
Animals the transmutation of their Sex and Species. 183
Anibal, his eating through the Alps with vinegar. 462
Antaci, who they be. 84
Antropomorphites, what they were 324
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Antidotes. 460
Commonly had from Animals nourished by posionous aliments. Ibid
Antimony. 249
Antipathies 220
Antipodes. 26,381
Antiquity. 21
Primitively how fabulous. 23
Antonius Mizaldus 36
Anus, Etymologically what 305
Ape, of exquisite taste. 449
Apis, the Aegyptian Idol 402
Apetite sensual 9
Apuleius. 23
Aqua forte 412
Aqudeucts, why commonly adorned with Lyons heads 325
Arabian learning what 455
Arcadians, their antiquity. 336
In what sense elder then the moon. Ibid.
Archimedes his burning glasses, 463
His removing the earth. 464
Arepagus what. 42
Argus. 192
Aristotles errors 15,22.
His arguing for the eternity of the world. 334
Never disputed the ebbing and flowing of the Sea. 445
His maxim touching felicity. 311
Aristotle, a Proselyte of Moses Law. 44
His death. Ibid.
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Where he dies. Ibid.
Art. 409
Ashes what proportion of water they will contain. 96
Why they are white. 409
Ascendent in the Astrologicall Scheme, what. 383
Asp the Serpent. 305
Asphaltides, or the lake of Sodom. 451
Why bodies sink not easily therein. Ibid.
Ass, the Animal of that kind. 409
Astomi or Plinies men without mouths 198
Astrologers. 12,270
Astrologie. 283
Atheism rejected. 40
Whether any Atheist. Ibid.
Athenaeus his Character. 22,34
Athenians. 334
Attraction Electrical 86,87,88,89
Attraction magnetical. 73
Aurum potabile 201
Authority, 27,28,29
Azores,or Islands of S.Michael 386
Babel tower, why attempted to be built. 429
Babylon, where situated. 397
Badger, the Animal 147
Baptista Porta, his Character 36
Barley 183
Baronius 439
Basil, the herb: whether it propagates Scorpions. 116
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Basils Hexameron 35
Basilisk the Serpent 150-153
Bayes, whether good against thunder 112
Bear, the Animal 148,149
Beasts clean and unclean 210
Beauty, what it is 407,408
Determined chiefly by opinion, or the several apprehensions of people. Ibid.
Bees. 221
Beeves of England, A Million of them killed yearly. 372
Beginning of the world 334,345
Belisarius his glories, and supposed misfortunes at last. 457
His hard usage of Pope Sylerrius 458
Bellonius, his diligence commended. 11
Belomancy,or divination by Arrows 330
Belus 16,429
Belus and Nimrod, Gen.10. the same person. 376
Bemata, anciently what they were. 307
Bersus 369
Bernacles, or the Goose-trees. 227
Bever the Animal. 144,145, 146,
Bezoar, commonly so esteemed. 205
Bible corrupted by the Jews. 337
Depravations in the original text. 339
Hebrew and Greek copies discordant ibid. 340
Birth. 149.
Birth of the eighth moneth. 270
Admirable Births. 423
Bittor. 218
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Blackness, the causes therof probably. 410,411,412
Blindness. 187 188
Boats portable 77
Bochartus his Geographia Sacra, commended 378
Bodies incombustible 175
Bodies drowed why they float after a time. 246
Heavy bodies, in what quantity of liquor commonly they swim. 451
Boetius de Boot commended 77
Bos in lingua. 155,156
Boramez, a Plant animal, or the lamb of Tartary. 227
Brain of man. 233
Briareus. 24
Brimstone. 97
Brittains, their simplicity of old. 386
Brutes some of them were organized for speech. 139
Brutus and Cassius. 47
Cabala of the Stars. 416,427
Cabeus. 71,88
Cain whether he intended to kill Abel 3,371,425
Cairo. 390
Cambden his description of great Britain. 445
Camelion. 193,194,195
Camel. 156,404
Camp of the Israelites. 385
Camhries operation. 115,410
Canaan the son, why cursed for the fact of Cham his father, Gen, 9. 405
Canaries or the fortunate Islands. 386
Candle, one discharged out of a Musket through an inch board. 466
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Candlemas day. 351
Candles burning blue. 328
Canibals. 404
Carbuncle whether it shine in the dark. 103
Cardans character. 36
Causes of common errours
1. Weaknesse of human nature 8
2.Erroneous disposition in man. 9
3. Misapprehension. Ibid.
4. Painters. 39
Centaures 13
Cham the son of Noah, he and Jupiter the same person. 429
Chams progenie how extended. 405,406
Chaldeans, their Records how antient. 336
By what years they compute the antiquity of their letters. 370
Charcaol how tis made black. 410
Charon the ferry-man of hell, who he was 24
Cheek-burning. 321
Chiromancy or divination by inspection of the hand. 327,328
Cherry-stones. 201
Black-cherries. 413
China dishes of what matter. 102
Their supposed vertue against poysons. 459
Chicken. 225
Choler. 140
Cholerick men shorter livd. 269
Christian religion. 10
Christian Chronology how uncertain. 337
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Chus, his issue how dispersed. 406
Cinnamon what it is how made. 109
Clemens Alexandrinus. 23
Cleopatra dying. 305
Climactertical year. 260
The opinion thereof whence (probably) promoted. 280
Climates. 348
Clocks no ancient invention. 315
Clouds, how far from the earth. 98
Clove what they be. 109
Cockatrice. 150,151
Cocks-egg. 153
Coition. 185,186
Colours. 152, 413
The principles of colour. 397
Colours whether essential to beauty. 407
Columbus. 70
Comets. 417
Conception, 186,255.
Conception in a Bath. 452
Congelation or freezing. 54,58
Conies, their numerous multiplication. 156
Constantinople. 374
Copperose, what it is. 411
Coral whether soft under water: 101
How of a plant it becomes a stone . Ibid.
Why worn about Chilldrens necks. 329
Cosmographers, why they divide their Globe into East and West. 386
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Costiveness. 140
Countreys, their peculiar rarities, whence proceeding. 383
Creature, generally all of them meat for some people. 212
Their dependence upon God. 292
Creatures presaging Weather. 161
Creatures subterraneous. 60
Credulity, what. 17
Cresses 183
Critical day, what it is. 264
Crystal not ice. 53
Not snow congealed. Ibid.
What it is. 59
Severall differences. 56
Commonly six cornered. 58
Chrocodile, not proper only to Nilus. 391
Why reported to have no period of growth, 452
Crocus Martis. 71
Crows, in some places white. 399
Ctesias Cnidius, his Character 31
Cucumbers whether obnoxious, 117
Cure of the Prussian knife. 81
Cures Supersticious or Magical. 48
Q.Curtius 137
Customes supersticious &c. 320,321
Customes laudably begun, not alwaies necessarily followed. 455
Cuttlefish.413
Daedulus and Icarus 24
Dagon the Idol, of what figure or shape. 316
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Daniels seventy weeks. 342
David, what his sin was in numbering the people. 440
David George. 11
Day natural what. 353
Daies of the week, how anciently named from the Planets. 330
Daies of the year, how they increase and decrease. 350
Daies anciently held to be ominous or unfortunate. 352
Declination of the Sun. 350,351
Deer. 156,157
Deformities specifical not to be granted. 217
Delos the Isle, why said to be in the midst of the earth. 350
Deluge, whether universal. 369
Mentioned by heathen Authors. Ibid.
At what age of the world it was. 364,365
The Deity. 40
Demosthenes, why said to be the son of a Black-smith. 456
Denarius, or the penny of the Gospel, what 298
Devils illusion.
1. that there is no god 41
2. that there are many. Ibid
3. that himself is god. 42
4.that he is left then angels or men. 44
5.that he is nothing at all. Ibid.
6. by Dreams, stars and meteors. 42
7.by augures 47
8. by Philters, /ligaments and charms. 48
Devil painted white, by whom 407
Dextral activity, whence it is. 239
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Diamond whether broken in goats blood. 91
Didrachmum, what 441
Differences of hours. 84
Diodorus Siculus 370
Diogenes Cynicus. 268
Diogenes his Tub. 318
Diomedes his horses 24
Dionysus Heracleoticus. 268
Dionisius Petavius. 337
Dioscordes, his Character. 32
Diseases determined by seasons. 280
Diseases Chronical and acute. 282
Dissolution of bodies concrete. 55
Dogs, how they single out their masters in the dark. 253
The variety of their shape and colours. 404
Dog-star 274,275,276,280,401
Dog-days 273.
Why so hot. 279
Dolphins. 287
Dooms-day. 345
Dove. 141,142,143,
Drachma what. 440
Dragon, how destroyed by Daniel. 3
Dreams. 42,43
Drowning 246,247
Drunkeness statary, or to be tipled once a moneth, whether it be healthfull 326
How caused 113
Dyars their Art 413
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Dyet of the Ancients 212
Of the Tartars ibid.
Ear tinglings. 321
Earthquakes , how they are caused 198
The Earth, how tis a Magnetical body. 62
Earth habitable in all parts of it. 354
How peopled before the flood 369,370,371
Earths motion, one instance against it 463
East and West in nature 380,381
Gesticulations towards the East 384,385
Education 39
Effluxions coporeal 63
Eggs.226,246
Eggshell, why it must be broken, when the meat is out. 321
Electrical bodies, what 86
Differences in attracting. Ibid.
How performed 87
Elderberies whether poyson or not. 117
Elephant 135,136,137,156,307
Elephants, their docility. 138,138
Their age commonly. 372
Their trunk for what it serves them. 449
Elias the Rabbin 338
Elves-locks 323
Emblemes of a Guardian. 164
Of fecundity. 319
Of abortion. Ibid.
Of Deformity. Ibid.
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Emblem of superstition. 321
Ephialites, or the night-mare.330
Epicurians. 42
Epicurius, his life and manners. 461
His doctrine of felicity. 462
Epiphanius. 15
Errors in 5 speches in scripture before the deluge. 6,7
13 Errors about Christ 45,46
Eternity. 293
Etymologies ridiculous 105
Eve. 1,2,291
Why she wondered not at the Serpent speaking 290,291
Eunuchs. 157
Euripus what it is. 447
Whether that of Eubea or Negroponte, ebbs and flows is pretended. 444
Fabbi of Rome their story, what may be thought of it. 463
Fables Poetical.explicated. 24
Fallacies in words and deeds. 13,14
Famianus Strada a Jesuit. 85
Fascination. 152
Fasting. 199
Faith, Theological what it is. 465
Fear. 155
Hydrophobia or Fear of water upon biting of a mad dog. 283
Figure of nan erect, what 229
What Seiante or sitting? Ibid.
Figures of things whence.
Fire Culinary, or of the kitchin. 199
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Striking fire. Ibid.
Flesh not commonly eaten before the flood. 209
Flies. 221,224
Fluctus decumanus, or the tenth wave. 458
Food, possibly sufficient without eating flesh. 209
Forbidden fruit. 419
Formation in the matrix or womb. 149
Franciscus Sanctius. 29
Frogs. 171,172
Frier Bacon, the mysterie of his brazen head. 461
Fuligo, properly what. 409
Fumus what. 410
Galen. 10,28
Galens honest intentions in his discourses of poisons. 468
Galilaeus, his Systema mundi 447
Gall of beasts. 139
Ganges the river. 389
Genealogies, those in H.Scripture differently reckoned. 265
Generation. 157,168,452
Generation by gelded Animals. 241
Generation by the devil not probable. 452
Generations aequivoval, yet regular. 107
Genius, or the natural inclination of men, where especially to be regarded. 20
Geographers, not any compleat, or describing all the habitable parts of the earth 379
Geryon and Cerberus. 24
Gihon the river, Gen.2. how lost. 387
Dr. Gilbert commended. 70
Ginger what it is, and how made. 109
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Girdle, its symbolical signification. 323
Brides-Girdle. 321
Glass. 55,92.
Glass what made of. 76
Venice glass not broken by poyson. Ibid.
Whether it be poyson. 92
Whether malleable. 93
Glow-worm 222,223
Goat. 156,319,327.
Goats blood. 91
Gold, whether a cordiall. 94
Its swimming in Quicksilver. 451
Gold potable. 170
Goropius Becanus. 204
Graecia Mendax. 23
Grasshopper. 288,289
Mr. Greaves, his description of the Pyramids. 393
Gregorian Account. 352
Griffins. 163,164
Gunpowder its ingredients. 97
Its Rarefaction in Gunns to what proportion. Ibid.
Gunpowder which makes no reports, whether possibl. 70,98
Gypsies, their original. 414
First known in Germany. Ibid.
Emissaries or Spies of the Grand Signior. 415[edit] H-L
Hand, right and left 237,238
Hand-gout. 237
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Hares, 182,183
Hare and cabbage, Catos diet. 211
The Indian Hare. 404
Heart of man, how placed. 231,232
Hebrew language. 528
Hector. 307
Dr. Heilins history of St. George. 313
Henry the Emperour, probably not poysoned in the Chalice. 467
Heraclitus his folly. 467
Hercules. 318
Heresies touching our B. Saviour. 45,46
Hermaphrodites. 169,185
Herod. 11
Herodotus Halicarnssaeus, his Character. 31
Hevelius, his Selenography or description of the Moon. 416
Hieroglyphicks, whose Invention. 38
Hieroglyphicks of the Deity. 325
Of Love. 421
Of Fertility. 423
Authors Hieroglyphical. 38
Hippocrates 21,279
His Aphorisms. 380
Hollanders. 352
Homers death. 448
Horn, what it signifies Hieroglyphically. 301
Horizon rational and sensible. 354,355
Horse. 139
Horse kicked by a wolf. 319
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Horses 280000 brought into field by Ninus,500000, by Semiramis. 372
Hugo Grotius commended. 28
Hum-bird in America, a bird little bigger then a beetle. 390
Hysop on the wall. 431
Ianus and Noah, by some taken for the same person. 377
Ice to be made at any time. 55
Idolatry, 11,12,13
Jepthah (Jud.11) killed not by his daughter. 309
Jeronymus Cardanus his Character. 36
Jews-ear. 116
Jews. 253
How dispersed 254Some of their tribe quite lost. Ibid.Uncertain in their Chronologie, or account of their times. 336Why prescribed in their dyet. 211Not generally of any ill favour. 253,254Commonly of counsell to the Turks great Others, or Bvashas. Ibid.Their Captivities. 341Their Intercalary moneth. 349Their sedulity to preserve their Bible entire. 339Their Malignity against the Septuagint. 340
Wandering Jew, his story. 460
Imagination the power therof. 402
Imposters. 1
Improlification or Barrenness in Women one cause of it. 452
Ink how made. 411,412
Insects. 114,222,223
Intercalation of dayes. 272
Intoxication. 113
Johannes Tzerzes his Character. 35
Job, an Idumaen or of the race of Esau. 424
Sr. John Mandevil, his Character. 32
St. John Baptist, his dyet what 435
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St. John the Evangelist, his death 437
Why natural, and not by martyrdom. 438
When he wrote his Revelation. Ibid.
How long he survived our B. Saviour. 439
Cast into a caldron of burning oyl. ibid.
Comming out untoucht. ibid.
His Reliques at Ephesus doing cures. ibid.
Jonah's gourd. 431
Josephus 369
Jovius, his Character. 32
Ireland. 409
Spiders observed in Ireland. 452
Iron, its verticity. 65,66,,202
Isaac,at what age he should have been sacrificed. 300
Ishmael. 424
Isidorus Hispalensis. 35
Islands, whether any before the flood. 379
Sundry Islands came to be stored with Animals. 404
Ithmum perfoder 394
Italy. 405
Judas whether he hang'd himself. 441
Judgements by urin. 11
Julia. 185
Julian account. 352
Julian the Apostate. 10
Julius Solinus his Character. 23,33
Ivy cup its property. 117
Sr. Kenelm Digby, commended 88,89
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King of Serpents. 150
Kings of Collein. 434
Kings-fisher. 161
Kiranides, his Character. 30,35
Kircherus commended. 70,85
Knowledge intuitive, or that of Spirits. 50
Lamech. 7
Lamp. 197
Lampries. 189
Laughter, what kind of passion. 453
The kinds of laughter. 454.
Whether our B. Saviour never laughed. ibid.
Lead. 201
Leandro his description of Italy. 445
Learning and arts primitively from whence. 386
Leeches. 93
Levinus Lemnius 70,433
Licetus commended. 103
Lightning without Thunder why. 98
Limmon. 412
Line Ecliptick. 354
Liquation or melting. 57
Livia. 153
Livie's Ox. 464
Loadstone its verticity. 66,67
not known to antiquity. 68
its inclination. 67
Declination and variation. 68
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causes of this variety. 69
the change of this variety. ibid
its attraction not hindered by garlick or a diamond. 74
whether it attracts any thing but Iron. 76
how to preserve it. ibid
how destroyed. ibid.
errors of attraction in Loadstones. 77
whether it can suspend a body in the ayr. 80
Loadstone powder what operation. ibid.
whether it cures the gout. 81
Longevity of Animals, how collected. 156,157
Longomontanus 342
Lots wife,her transformation. 441
Lubim. 406
Lucian. 23
Lues venerea, wher it first began. 404
Lupus est in fabula. 155
Lybia, its driness 401
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Mace, that is the skin of a nutmeg.109
Macrcephali, or people with long heads 403
Macroscelism or slender legs, how happen 308
Mahomet 10,11,16,18,38.
Mahomets Camel 464
Mahomets tomb hangs not in the ayr 79
Mahomtans, partaking of all religion.384
Magi, or the Wise men (Mat.2.) what manner of Kings they might be. 434
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Magnes carneus. 73
Magneticall, body what 62
Effects , how wrought 63
Rocks, whether Magneticall 79
Magnetisms pretended,83,84,85
Man, his growth and decrement, how proportioned 351
Whether Mans body be Magneticall 77
Mandrake, imposture about the root. 107
How produced.107
Whether it endangerth life to pull it up. Ibid
Magots turne into flyes.114
Manna. 432
Marcellus Empericus, a Plagiarie. 23
Marcus Leo the Jew. 338
St. Mark where he wrote his Gospel. 299
Marrow Spinal, what it is. 386
Mauritania and the coast of Africk, ny whom peopled at first. 378
Mears, peculiar to some Nations, through custom or supersticion. 211,212,213
Meazels.255
Medea 24
Meditation upon the Passion.438
Men, lighter before sleep, then before; dead then alive; in Summer then in Winter.248
Mercurialis, his Gymnastica commended 136, 293
The Meridian. 68[edit] N-S
Nayles, how to be made red. 466
Nayl-spots, whether significative 327
Nordus pisticus, Mar.14 or the ointment in the Gospel, of what composition. 431
Names ridiculously derived.105,116
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Names cause of errors.61
Nations, generally now mixt by Commerce or Conquest.254
Nativites, why taken from the ascendent.383
Navill, what it is, and for what use 291
Navil of Birds, Snakes, of Poriwiggles,&c. 293
Nazarite, by birt, or by vow. 441
Neck of Animals, how contrived by Nature, and for what. 448
Negroes, their blackness 397,398,399
The particular causes thereof 402,403
Negroes in America, not Indigene, or Natives of that Countrey.399
Nerves, whence they spring.235
Nerves of taste. 448
Nicander, his Character.34
Nidor, properly what.409
Nierembergius a Jesuit, his conceit of man. 76
Niger, a river in Africa.389
Nigromancy in raysing spirits, souls &c. rejected.42
Nightingale, the tongue how fashioned.450
Why said to sit with its breast against a Thorn.228
Nilus, the river, its Ostiaries, or severall fallings into the sea. 387,388
What causeth its overflowing. 162,391
Some years it overflows not. 392
Ninus, and Assur mentioned , Gen.10 the same person 376
Noahs Ark, wher it first rested.386
Noah, whether he knew the effect of wine, before he was overtaken. 326
Noah and Saturne , held to be the same person.429
Northern passsage to the Indies.69
Noses, the Moorish, the Persian, the Roman. 408
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Numbers, their mysterious or supersticious consideration 260,261
Nutmeg.109
Nutrition, of what qualities the ailment must be.195
Oates 183
Object, why sometimes appearing double. 192
Observations superticious 321,322
Oestridge, how it eats Iron. 200
Olas Magus. 78,399
Olympiads, in what year of the world they began. 370
Ophir, what place. 71
Opium, its effect in venery.433
Oppan, his Character. 34
Opticks, a Maxime in them.353
Oracles .15
Their ceasing.422
The acknowledged cause thereof. Ibid
Oracle of Praneste, of Antium, of Delphos. 442
Oreglian, a river in America. 389
Orestes 10
Organs, in the intention of Nature infer the action proper for them.188,193
Organ of taste.448
Orgasmus, what 180
Oribasius, Physitian to Julian.116
A Plagarie , or Transcriber of Galen 23
Orpheus, his Harp.24
Osorius 137
Osyris, and Mizraim mentioned, Gen 10. the same person 377
Ovid, a plagaries of whom.23
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Ovum decumanum, the reason of the proverb 458
Owl, an ominous bird. 320
Palmestrie 327
Palmes, on which side most commonly they happen.242
Panama, an Isthmus in America 394
Pancirollus 70
Paracelsus, his Character. 29
At what age he died.170
Pretending a possibility of making men immortal. Ibid
Parricide, its punishment. 178
Parysatis, her poysoned knife.459
Passages of meat and drink.249,250
Passover.349
Passion, Irascible, Concupiscible, whence they rise. 142
Pausanias, his description of Greece. 445
Peacock 217
Pedantism 25
Pedamontanus 36
Pelican 285,286
People of Rome.12
St. Peter crucified.438
Petrcius, what it signifieth.373
Phaenicians, their several plantations or Colonies.378
Whence descended 395
Phoenix, the bird. 165,166
Philes, his Character.35
Philosophers Stone, not improbable to be procured.170
Philoxenus his wish.448
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His Incivility.449
Phlebotomies,or letting blood.236
Physick, better prepared now , then anciently 282
Picture, of our B. Saviour, with long hair 229
Pictures-
Of the four Evangelists 303
Of the Sibyls 304
Of Cleopatra 305
Of the nine Worthies 306
Of Jeptha 308
Of St. John Baptist 311
Of St. Christopher 312
Of St. George 313
Of Saint Hieronymus 314
Of Mermaids, Unicorns &c. 316
Pigmies, no such people 257,258
Pineda 71
Pismire 224
Pitch, why black, and Rosin not so.410
Plagarism, or transcribing of Authors 23
A list of Plagaries ibid.
Planets 330,331
Planets, or wandering stars, more then seven 262
Plants, whence probably, they receive their colours. 413
Whether all have seed 114
Plate, a river in America 389
Plato 184,268
His objection against the Pythagorean Metempsychosis 368
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Pleiades, more then seven 262
Pleurisies 233
Pliny, his Character 33
Poets 39
Poisons 152
No poisons, but hath its Antidote in Nature 459
Poisonous Animals, why not found in some Countries 460
Poles Northern and Aouthern, what they be.381
Polytheism or muliplicity of Gods. 41
Pompey 16
Popes, why commonly they change their names at their creation 454
Pope Joan, a suspected storie 461
Story of Hildebrand, or Pope Gregory 7th partially reported ibid.
Popular imperfections taxed 8,9,19
Popular error, from difficulties to conclude impossiblities 451
Porwiggles 173
Positions of the body 176
Pox. 255
Prarcolus 15
Predictions Augurial &c. whence they came. 47
Presages, from Spiders, Magots, deceitfull 114
Perga Dio, or the praying Locust of province.230
Priests, why they washed their feet commonly before Sacrifice. 324
Prester John, or the Emperour of Ethiopia 404
Procopius, his Arcana historia, an invective against Justinian 457
Progression of Animals. 135
Proportion betwixt the face and neck.449
Providence of Nature.194
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Ptolomy, where he was born.388
Pythagoras, his allegoricall precepts morallized 14
His precepts concerning Fish. 211
Quailes 228
Quince 412
Quinsay, a City in China 390
Rabbins 7,168,184
Radishes 183
Rahab, whether a harlot in the worst sense. 301
Rainbow, how produced.425
The Lunary Rainbow 426
Rainbow, how proper for the signification it beareth . ibid
Colours of the Rainbow 427
Rain water 198 Wheat 115
Raven, an ominous bird. 320
Ragmund Sebund, his Theologia naturalis commended.28
Reason 3,27
Red-sea, what, and why so called 395
Religion, not to be compelled. 46,56
Remora a fish 227
Revenge, how prodigiously acted by an Italian 467
Reward of vertue and vice 40
Ribs how many commonly in men and women 422
Ridiculous receipts in Physick.30
Rings 234
Rings, Bracelets, Jewels &c. how diversly worn 408
Gyges his Ring 464
Ring-finger 234
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Rivers and estuaries, why subject to such violent flows 447
Rose of Jericho 112
Romes proper name unknown why 12
Under the Rose, &c. the reason of the Proverb. 322[edit] T-Z
Sabbaton Deuteroproton, Luke. 6 What Sabbath it was 349
Salamander.174,175
Salmasius commended. 273
Salomon. 7
Salt. 257
The falling of Salt. 221
Salt-peter, how made, its effects 97
Salts 397
Spirits of Salt. 54,413
Salt waters bearing more weight then fresh.451
Samaritans, their care to preserve the Pentateuch, or five books of Moses.337
Samaritan Chronology. Ibid.
Sammonicus 30
Sap of trees, how it nourisheth 115
Satan, his practises 6,15,40,41,42,43,49,290,443
How he fell 51
Saturnius Egypticus and Cham, Gen. 10 the same person 377
Savours unpleasant in some men, whence possibly arising. 253
Scaliger 239
Scepticism censured 18
Schoolmen, a query among them concernning the ressurection of women 185
H. Scripture. 37,46.
Translation of H. Scripture. 339
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Scutcheons of the twelve Tribes. 302
Antiquity of bearing Scutcheons.304
Scythians. 335
Why commonly subject to the Sciatica or hip-gout.308
Seasons of the year, how made and distinguished.353
Necessary for the production of things.354
Sea, its ebbing and flowing.446
How possibly caused by the Moon. Ibid.
How unequal in some seas. 447
Sebastian Cabor. 69
Seed, an Idea of the whole Animal contained in every part of it. 423
Sem, whether the eldest son of Noah. 428
Semiramis, her army against the Indians. 379
Senag, a river. 399
Sense from the brain. 190
Septuagint translation of the Bible 339
Its primitive authority and credit. Ibid
Since impaired. Ibid.
Seraglio, the daily provision therof. 456
Serapis. 202
Serpent tempting Eve. 289,421
Serpents bicipitous. 177
Servius Commentary upon Virgil commended. 263
Sferra Cavallo, its pretended properties. 112
Shekel, that of the Sanctuary. 440
Sibyls. 304
Side, right and left in man. 240
Sight. 152
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Silly-how, what it is. 325
Sin of the fruit, not first sin.2
Sitting coss-legd 322
Smal-coal, how made, of what use in Gun-powder. 97
Smoak.322
Smoak of Sulphur. 410
Snakes. 226
Snayls. 191,199
Sneezing.251
Customs observed upon Sneezing. 252
Snow. 58
Spaniards, their Nation how ancient. 377,378
Speech, not by any natural instinct, but by imitation or instruction. 335
Spermatical parts. 160
Spider 220
Spigelius commended. 172
Spirits, those in Animals, what manner of substance they be. 248
Sponge. 93
Stars, their Ascent Heliacal, and Cosmical, what they be. 276
Their Longitude what it is. 278
Their Declination, what. Ibid.
The seven Stars. 317
Fixed Stars. 417
Stater, Matth. 17. what piece of money it was 441
Statists. 12
Steel. 63,64
Stirrops, their use not ancient. 307
Stoicks. 42
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Stomack 176
Stones fusible 55
Stone in the kidneys or blader, how bred. 90
Stones retaining light in darkness.103
Eagle Stone, of what vertue. Ibid.
Stork. 218
Stories suspected
Of Cocles, Sevola, of Curtius,
Of Archimedes his sphere
Of the Amazons
Upon the taking of Babylon
Of the Catadupae
Of Democritus and Heraclitus &c. 463,464
Stories indiscreetly transmitted, what mischief they do to posterity. 468
Suetonius. 136
Sugar. 96
Sun, its site and motion, how admirably accomodated by God, to the necessities and state of the
inferior world, 353,354,355.
By what motion it makes the day, by what the year. Ibid
Its Veneticall motion, what.ibid
Its motion unequall, and how. 400
How seen sometimes after it is set. 416
Superfoetation what 185
Possible in women, unto a perfect birth. Ibid.
Supinity taxed. 17
Swallows 328
Swans 216, 217
Swimming, the faculty not to be lost by disuse. 245
Siracusia, or the Galleon of King Hiero 464
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Tainct, an insect, whether so dangerous to cattell as tis thought . 222
Taliacotius, his art 84, 160
Tamerlane how descended. 455
Whence said to be the son of a shepheard ibid.
Tarantula, what. 227
Temperancy, of the modern Jews 255
Temple at Ephesus how long in building. 464
Tenariffa, an hill of the Canaries. 390
Tertullian. 165
Thargum. 2
Thomas Fazelli, his description of Sicilie commended. 377
Throat, the passages therof. 250
Thunder, how caused. 98
The thorne at Glassenbury. 112
Time. 346
Time, what it is. 166
Anciently how measured. 315
The three great distinctions of time since the creation.
Adelon, Mythicon,Historicon, what they import. 369,370
Toads. 171,220
Torpedo. 223
Torrid Zone. 26
Tranparency of bodies, whence. 60
Triclinium, or the Table on which our B. Saviour instituted the Eucharist, reported to be at Rome.297
Trinum Magicum. 36
Tropicks. 346,401
Truths in things, what 4
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Tulips, never bearing a blew 398
Turnebus 71, 321
Turneps. 183
Tyger the Animall, nothing so swift as hath been though. 227
Tzertes,his Character 35
Variation of the compass, what it is . 68
The particular causes of the Variation. Ibid. 69,75
In some places none at all. 386
Ubiquity of God. 5
Venery 157
Verdigreese 412
Vespasian 50
Vegetables, their vertue impaired by the flood. 209
Vices epidemicall, or a general succession of them in all ages. 21
Vincentius Belluacensis, his Character. 35
Violl-string moved upon the touch of another. 466
Viper. 178, 306
Virgil, a Plagarie of whom. 23
Vision Beatifical 7
Vitriol 411, 412, 413
Umbrae at feasts, who they were. 294
Unguentum armarium 85
Unicorn 202,203
Unicorns-horn, that commonly usd in England, what 264
Universities 20
Vossius 301
Urinal, its forcing a nail through a plank. 466
Vultures, whether all females , as hath been reported. 319
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Water, and watry humidity only freezeth. 54
Weight. 247
Weight of men 248
Whelps 219
White-powder 99
Wine, how spoiled by Thunder. 113
Whether good to be drunke once a moneth. 326
Witches 45
Wolf, a disease 256
Wolf the Animal. 155
Wolves, why said to live in England 452
Women, changed into men. 183,184
Wormes 153,221
Wood, petrifying, or turning into stone. 54
Writing, the more ancient way. 319
Xenocrates Platonicus 268
Xerxes his Army, how probably said to drink up rivers. 462
Year Solary 271
Year Lunary ibid.
Year differently measured 271
How divided 346
Zenith, what. 68
Its certain distance from the Horizon. 355
Zeno his paradox. 18
Zodiack, the line of life. 351
Zone, the Torrid Zone whence conceived to be inhabitable 451, 452