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Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability

F. Edward Hulme

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Description:Excerpt from Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and by-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in From Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability Mediaeval naturalists honest searchers after truth - Sir Emerson Tennant thereupon - Recent discoveries confirm many statements once contested - "Travellers' tales" - Mediaeval natural history largely based upon ancient - Difference of aim between modern and ancient and mediaeval nature-study - The moral treatment - Illustrations from the "Speculum Mundi" - Falsification of natural facts justified by the ecclesiastics - Ready credulity a mediaeval characteristic - Two examples thereof - The love of the marvellous - Astrological influences - The mental equipment of a mediaeval surgeon - Quaint book titles - The unchanging East - Suttee, Juggernaut, &c.in the pages of mediaeval writers - The "Mirabilia descripta" of Bishop Jordanus - The "Voiage and Travaile" of Maundevile - The coca plant - Burton's "Miracles of Art and Nature" - The "Historia Mundi" of Pliny - English editions of it - Herodotus - The writings of Aristotle - The sources of information in the Middle Ages - The praise of books - Books of travel Munster's "Cosmography" - The interest and beauty of old title-pages - Elephants in lieu of towns in the old maps - A tale of a tub - Herbert's Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great" - The travels of Marco Polo - Greography of Peter Heylyn - Raleigh's, Hakluyt s, Purchas', Strays', Acosta's books of travels - Medical books - Potter's "Booke of Physicke" - Cogan's "Haven of Health" - Indifference to animal suffering - "Bestiare Divin" of Guillaume - The "Bestiary" of Philip de Thaun - The Armories of Guillim, Legh, and Bossewell.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability. To get started finding Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: London: B. Quaritch

Release: 1895

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Description: Excerpt from Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and by-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in From Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability Mediaeval naturalists honest searchers after truth - Sir Emerson Tennant thereupon - Recent discoveries confirm many statements once contested - "Travellers' tales" - Mediaeval natural history largely based upon ancient - Difference of aim between modern and ancient and mediaeval nature-study - The moral treatment - Illustrations from the "Speculum Mundi" - Falsification of natural facts justified by the ecclesiastics - Ready credulity a mediaeval characteristic - Two examples thereof - The love of the marvellous - Astrological influences - The mental equipment of a mediaeval surgeon - Quaint book titles - The unchanging East - Suttee, Juggernaut, &c.in the pages of mediaeval writers - The "Mirabilia descripta" of Bishop Jordanus - The "Voiage and Travaile" of Maundevile - The coca plant - Burton's "Miracles of Art and Nature" - The "Historia Mundi" of Pliny - English editions of it - Herodotus - The writings of Aristotle - The sources of information in the Middle Ages - The praise of books - Books of travel Munster's "Cosmography" - The interest and beauty of old title-pages - Elephants in lieu of towns in the old maps - A tale of a tub - Herbert's Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great" - The travels of Marco Polo - Greography of Peter Heylyn - Raleigh's, Hakluyt s, Purchas', Strays', Acosta's books of travels - Medical books - Potter's "Booke of Physicke" - Cogan's "Haven of Health" - Indifference to animal suffering - "Bestiare Divin" of Guillaume - The "Bestiary" of Philip de Thaun - The Armories of Guillim, Legh, and Bossewell.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability. To get started finding Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability

Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediaeval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability

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