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Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV

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Sir Thomas Browne

H. G. Bohn, 1852

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PREFACE	v

Chap	2

Chap	9

Chap	15

Of the more immediate causes of common errors both	26

Chap 5	37

Of others indirectly effecting the same	72

A further illustration of the same	86

That a beaver to escape the hunter bites off his testicles	240

That a bear brings forth her cubs informous or unshaped	247

That a wolf first seeing a man begets a dumbness in him	261

That a kingfisher hanged by the bill showeth where	270

Of frogs toads and toadstone	284

That a salamander lives in the fire	291

That young vipers force their way through the bowels	297

That all animals of the land are in their kind in the sea	344

THE SECOND BOOK beginning the particular part Of popular	94

Concerning the loadstone of things particularly spoken	112

Concerning the loadstone a rejection of sundry common	133

Of bodies electrical	157

Compendiously of sundry other common tenets concern	166

Of sundry tenets concerning vegetables or plants which	192

Of some insects and the properties of several plants	210

THE THIRD BOOK the particular part continued Of popular	219

That the horse hath no gall	232

Of the spermaceti whale	353

Chap 1	359

Chap 2	369

That the heart is on the left side	383

Of the right and left hand	391

On swimming and floating	402

That there are several passages for meat and drink	408

Of pigmies	421

Of the canicular or dogdays	446

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Titel	Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV Band 1 von The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Thomas Browne
Autor/in	Sir Thomas Browne
Herausgeber	Simon Wilkin
Verlag	H. G. Bohn, 1852
Original von	UC Southern Regional Library Facility
Digitalisiert	1. Febr. 2016

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