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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![framed like Nets ; and agreeable unto the Greek expreffion concerning 2 Caner. 9 Chrift- in the (d) Canticles looking through the Nets, Which ours hath ren- dred, He lookerh forth at the windows, fhewing hinsfelf throngh the Latteffe , thitis, partly feen and unfeen, according to the vifible and invifible Pas of his nature. To omit the noble Reticulate work in the Chapiters of the Pillars of So/owon, With Lillies and Pomegranates npon a Network-grounds and the Craticala or Grate through which the Afhes fell in the Altar of Burnt-offerings. : That the Networks and Nets of Antiquity were little different ia the from from ours at prefent, 1 confirmable from the Nets in the hands of the Retiarie Gladiators, the proper Combatants with the Securores. Te omit the ancient Cenopeion or Gnat-net of thee gyprians, the inventers of that Artifice; the rufhy Labyrinths of Theccritus 5 the Nofegay-nets., which hung from the Head under the Noftrils of Princes and that unea- fie metaphor of Reticulum Fecorts which fome expound the Lobe, we the Caul above the Liver. As for that famous Network of Yalcan, which in- : dofed. Adarsand Venus, and caufed that unextinguifhable Laugh in Hea- AzBes Ge A) ; ; Aree ast. vens fince the Gods themfelyes could not difcern it, Wwe fhall not prie avs, Hom. into it ; although why Vulcan bound them, /Veprune loofed them, and 4-, 40 pe Arnis Yalds have not omitted this Order or imitation thereof, \hiles they {ymbo- feaccatis, ma- Vically adorn cheat Scutcheons with Mafcles, Fufils and Saltirs, and while feulatis,iave- they difpofe the figures of Ermins and varied Coats in this Quincuncial tis, fufelatic, method. ic The fame is not forgot by Lapidaries, while they cut their Gemms py- ec Bek ramidally, or by zquictural Tangles. Perfpective PiGtures, in their Bafe, erudit.Bifteo. Horizon, and les of Diftances, cannot efcape thefe Rhomboidal Decuf- fations. Sculptors in their ftrongeft Shadows after this order dodraw their double Haches : And the very Americans do naturally fall upon itin cheitneac and curious Textures, which is alfo obferved in the elegant Ar- tifices of Europe. But this is no law unto the Woof of the neat Retarie Spider, which feems to weave without Tranfverfion, and by the union of Right lines to make out a continued Surface: which is beyond the com- As in the mon Artof Textury, and may full nettle Afinerva, the Goddefs of that re Myfterie. And hethat fhall hatch che little Seeds, either found in {mall see ee ing A. Webs or White round Eggs carried under the bellies of fome Spiders, and vaébnee behold how at their firft production in Boxes they will prefently fill the fame with their Webs, may obferve the early and untaught finger- of Na- YY ture, and how they are natively provided with’a ftock fufficient for fuch Texture. The rural Charm againft Dodder, Tettér, and ftrangling Weeds, Was contrived after this Order, while they placed achalked Tule at the four corners , and one in the middle of their Fields 5 which though ridi- caloys in the intention, was rational in the contrivance , and a good way Cyt may 10 Sort dd Gi the bac prodig Fot be ether that h me wehad Cheeem as bein the wha Moon, Phy pation make’ inh ends; Romay Hiker ti t a ! then \y te] of d](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3034377x_0516.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
