The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: 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

George Bell and Sons, 1884

PREFACE	v

The Author to the Reader	xlv

Chap	1

Chap	9

Chap	17

Chap 5	37

Chap 4	53

Of authors who have most promoted popular conceit	59

That young vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam	297

That hares are both male and female	305

That moles are blind	312

That lampreys have many eyes	316

That snails have no eyes	318

That the chameleon lives only upon air	321

That the ostrich digesteth iron	334

Of the unicorns horn	337

Of the last and great promoter of false opinions	75

A further illustration of the same	86

THE SECOND BOOK beginning the particular part Of popular	94

Concerning the loadstone of things particularly spoken	112

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	219

Chap 2	227

Chap 3	237

That a badger hath the legs of one side shorter than	245

51	252

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

75	266

Of griffins	273

Of the phoenix	276

Of frogs toads and toadstone	284

That a salamander lives in the fire	291

Of the amphisbæna	294

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

Concerning the common course of our diet in making choice of some animals and abstaining from eating others	346

Of the spermaceti whale	353

that storks will only live in republicks and free states of the noise of a bittern by putting the bill in a reed that whelps are blind nine days of the antipa...	357

That the chicken is made out of the yolk of the egg that snakes sting of the tarantula the lamb of Tartary the swiftness of tigers with sundry queries	373

THE FOURTH BOOK the particular part continued Of many popu lar and received tenets concerning man Chap 1 That only man hath an erect figure	379

That the heart is on the left side	383

That pleurisies are only on the left side	385

Of the ring finger	386

Of the right and left hand	391

On swimming and floating	402

That men weigh heavier dead than alive and before meat than after	405

That there are several passages for meat and drink	408

On saluting upon sneezing	410

That Jews stink	413

Of pigmies	421

Of the great climacterical year that is sixtythree	425

Of the canicular or dogdays	446

Judul	The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: 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 Bohn's Standard liberary Volume 1 dari The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin
Pengarang	Sir Thomas Browne
Editor	Simon Wilkin
Edisi	cetak ulang
Penerbit	George Bell and Sons, 1884
Asli dari	Princeton University
Didigitalkan	10 Des 2009

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