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
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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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    oa Cyrus's Garden, OY, The Quincunx. planted the third day of the Creation , as wifer divinity concludeth , the Nativity thereof was too early for Horofcopie ; Gardens were before Gar- diners, and but fome hours after the Bartha. 3. Of deeper doubt is its T opography and Local defignation : yer 'being éFor fome the primitive Garden, and without much.(d) controverfie feated in the theré is from Bat. it is more then probable the firft Cutiofity and Cultivation of Plants ih aca molt flourifhed in thole quarters, _ And fince the Ark of Woah firit touch’d ye Mikkee upon fome Mountains of armenia , the Planting Art arofe again in the em, whether Eaft and found\ its Revolntion pot fat from thé-place of its Natavity , ab oviente,or about the Plains of ‘thofe Regions. And if Zoroxffer Were either Cham, & priacipion Ohys, or Adizraimy they were early Proficients therein , who left (as Pliny delivereth) a work of Agriculture. made by Semiramis, the third or fourth from WVierod , ts. of no flender antiquity 3 which being-not framed ‘upon ordinary fevel-of ground’; but raifed upon Pillars admitting under-paflages, we cannot accept as the firlt Babylonian Gardens, but a more éminent progrefs and advancement in that. Art then any that.wvent befoye its fomervhat anfivering. or hinting the old Opinion concerning Paradife it felf, which many~caticeptions efevated above the plane of the Barth. + 1 i Nabuchodonofor, whom fome will have to be the famous Syrian King of . Diodorus, beautifully repaired- that City, and fo magnificently built his * Fofephus. (e) hanging Gardens,that from fucceeding Writers he had the honour of the firtt Authonr. From whence over-looking Babylon, and all the Region about it, he found no circum{cription to the eye of his Ambition, till over-deligh- ted with the Bravery of this Paradife, in his melancholick Metamorphofis he found the folly of that Delight, and a proper puntfhment in the con- trary habitation, m wilde Plantations and Wanderings of the Fields. The Perfian Gallants, who deftroyed this Monarchy , maintained their . Botanicall Bravery. Unto whom we ove the very name of Paradife: wherewith we meet not in Scripture before the time.of So/omon; and itis conceived originally Perfian. The word for thar difpated Garden expref- Rodt is content to derive a Garden and a Buckler. Cyras the elder, brought up in Woods and Mountains, when time and si power enabled, purfued the diétate of his Education, and brought the Trea- fures of the Field into Rule and circumfcription; fo nobly beautifying the hanging Gardens of Baby/on, that he was alfo thought to be the Authour thereot. f Abafneras (whom many conceiveto have been Artaxerxes Longimanns) : ag Psi ‘tan the (f) Coantry andCity of Flowers and-inan open Garden,entertained it ie sf. Within the Palace thereof. dances Batif-(asfome opimon ) King Abafueras Were Artaxerxes, eae . : * that that {0 fied C rable ipint Jefs cl al Pla patio Hedg for fis hardly entsd upon ¢ Act thus t dines. gran ines Ron thet Ow gar the N ted] the | Inter Tree: dull fry Wit ore ay) te ake fi Ant