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

  • Thomas Browne
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1658
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    Of Gypfus. Offome others. chap. ij7 chap.14. THE SEVENTH BOOK, Concernin'7 many Hiffoiial Tenents, generally received, and fomc deduced from the II Tory of holy Scripture. \ ^,, V * I 0 • t~W~'IJr/t the forbidden fruit w.ts an Apple. ' Chapter.r. § That a Man hath one Rib lefs then a lVomcin. chap.2. That Methufdah mult needs he the longed liver of ai! the pofierity of A* dam. ’ ’ chap.3. chap^. chap.5. chap.7. chap. 8. chap, p* chap.10, chap. it. chap. 12* ch*ap.i 3. chap. 14. cl lap. 15. / Jhat there was no Rainbow before the flood. Of Sent) IIam and Jacket.. ; That the Tower of Babe/ was erected again]} a fecond.Tdcluge* Of the Mandrakes of Leah.> Of the three Kings of Collein. ' * Of the'food of John the JSaptiil in thewildemefs. Of the conceit that John the Evangel if jhould not die. Of feme others more briefly. Of the ceffation of Oracles. 'J Of the death of A rifle tie. Of the with of Philoxenus to have the neckl of a Crane. Of the laky Afphaltites5 or the dead Sea. Of divers other P\.elations. Of the woman that conceived in a Bath. Of CrajTus that never laughed but once. That our Saviour never laughed. Of Sergius the fecond* or Bacca tie Porco. That Tfamerlane was a ScythianJhepherd.chap. 16* „ - - Of divers others. O f the pc verty o fBelifarim. Offiucim Deeurnanus-) or the tenth wave. , • Up. h Of Pari fa Xis that poyfoned Statira by one fide of a knife. Of the woman fed with poyfon that fhould have poyfoned Alexander. Of the wand ring J ew, \ $ |||||,' hfcB Of Pope Joan. ,', Of frier Bacons Bra fen head that jpoke• / - |BHi Of Epicurus. , * chap. 17* More breifly. v • |S -I That the Army of Xerxes drank^whole Rivers dry. That Hanihal eat through the Alps with Vinegar, Of Archimedes his burning the Ships 4 of Marcellas. Of the Falii that were all flain. Of the death of JEfi cfiylus. Of the Cities of Tarfius* and Anchiale built in one day> Of the great Ship Syracufia or Alexandria. Of the Spartan boyes. c.18. Offome^ others. 4 - chap. 19. Offo me Relations whofe truth we fear. chap.20. Marginal S \
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