Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1669
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Credit: Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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