Natural History, Lore and Legend
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Excerpt from Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and by-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in From Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediæval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability Mediæval naturalists honest searchers after truth - Sir Emerson Tennant thereupon - Recent discoveries confirm many statements once contested - "Travellers´ tales" - Mediæval natural history largely based upon ancient - Difference of aim between modern and ancient and mediæval nature-study - The moral treatment - Illustrations from the "Speculum Mundi" - Falsification of natural facts justified by the ecclesiastics - Ready credulity a mediæval characteristic - Two examples thereof - The love of the marvellous - Astrological influences - The mental equipment of a mediæval surgeon - Quaint book titles - The unchanging East - Suttee, Juggernaut, &c.in the pages of mediæval 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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