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INCLUDING HIS LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE
EDITED BY SIMON WILKIN F.L.S.
VOLUME III
ALDI
DISCIP.
ANG LVS
LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
JOSIAH FLETCHER NORWICH
1835
L
NORWICH : PRINTED BY JOSIAH FLETCHER.
CONTENTS TO VOLUME THIRD.
PAGE
.
PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA, books 4 to 7... I to 374
The Fourth Book; the particular part continued.
Of many popular and received tenets con-
cerning man.
Chap. 1. That only man hath an erect figure 1 to 4
Chap. 2. That the heart is on the left side 5 ton
Chap. 3. That pleurisies are only on the left
side
7 to 8
Chap. 4. Of the ring finger
8 to 13
Chap. 5. Of the right and left hand
13 to 23
Chap. 6. On swimming and floating
24 to 27
Chap. 7. That men weigh heavier dead than
alive, and before meat than after
28 to 31
Chap. 8. That there are several passages for
meat and drink
31 to 32
Chap. 9. On saluting upon sneezing ·
33 to 36
Chap. 10. That Jews stink
36 to 43
Chap. 11. Of pygmies
43 to 47
Chap. 12. Of the great climacterical year, that
,
is, sixty-three
47 to 68
Chap. 13. Of the canicular or dog-days 69 to 85
The Fifth Book; the particular part continued.
Of many things questionable as they are
commonly described in pictures; of many
popular customs, &c.
Chap. 1. Of the picture of the pelican
87 to 90 Chap. 2. Of the picture of dolphins
90 to 92 Chap. 3. Of the picture of a grasshopper 92 to 95 Chap. 4. Of the picture of the serpent tempt-
95 to 99
ing Eve
vi
Chap. 5. Of the picture of Adam and Eve with
navels
99 to 102
Chap. 6. Of the pictures of the Jews and
Eastern Nations, at their feasts, especially
our Saviour at the Passover
102 to 110
Chap. 7. Of the picture of our Saviour with
long hair
111 to 112
Chap. 8. Of the picture of Abraham sacrificing
Isaac
113 to 114
Chap. 9. Of the picture of Moses with horns 114 to 116
Chap. 10. Of the scutcheons of the twelve
tribes of Israel
117 to 122
Chap. 11. Of the pictures of the sybils 122 to 123
Chap. 12. Of the picture describing the death
of Cleopatra
124 to 126
Chap. 13. Of the pictures of the nine worthies 127 to 131
Chap. 14. Of the picture of Jephthah sacrifice
ing his daughter
131 to 134
Chap. 15. Of the picture of John the Baptist
in a camel's skin
134 to 136
Chap. 16. Of the picture of St. Christopher 136 to 138
Chap. 17. Of the picture of St. George 138 to 140
Chap. 18. Of the picture of St. Jerome 141 to 143
Chap. 19. Of the pictures of mermaids, uni-
corns, and some others
143 to 148
Chap. 20. Of the hieroglyphical pictures of the
Egyptians
148 to 152
Chap. 21. Of the picture of Haman hanged 153 to 155
Chap. 22. Of the picture of God the Father;
of the sun, moon, and winds, with others 156 to 161
Chap. 23. Compendiously of many popular cus-
toms, opinions, &c.
162 to 173
Chap. 24. Of popular customs, opinions, &c. 174 to 184
The Sixth Book; the particular part continued.
Of popular and received tenets, cosmographi-
cal, geographical, and historical.
Chap. 1. Concerning the beginning of the
world, that the time thereof is not precisely
known, as commonly it is presumed . 185 to 200
vii
Chap. 2. Of men's enquiries in what season or
point of the Zodiack it began, that, as they
are generally made, they are in vain, and as
particularly, uncertain .
201 to 203
Chap. 3. Of the divisions of the seasons and
four quarters of the year, &c.
204 to 209
Chap. 4. Of some computation of days and de-
ductions of one part of the year
unto another 210 to 213
Chap. 5. A digression of the wisdom of God
in the site and motion of the sun
213 to 219
Chap. 6. Concerning the vulgar opinion that
the earth was slenderly peopled before the
flood
219 to 235
Chap. 7. Of east and west
236 to 246
Chap. 8. Of the river Nilus
246 to 259
Chap. 9. Of the red sea
259 to 262
Chap. 10. Of the blackness of Negroes 263 to 275
Chap. 11. Of the same
275 to 280
Chap. 12. A digression concerning blackness 281 to 287
Chap. 13. Of gypsies
287 to 290
Chap. 14. Of some others
290 to 293
THE SEVENTH Book; the particular part concluded. .
Of popular and received tenets, chiefly his-
torical, and some deduced from the Holy
Scriptures.
Chap. 1. That the forbidden fruit was an apple 295 to 299
Chap. 2. That a man hath one rib less than a
299 to 301
Chap. 3. Of Methuselah
301 to 304
Chap. 4. That there was no rainbow before the
304 to 308
Chap. 5. Of Shem, Ham, and Japheth 308 to 310
Chap. 6. That the tower of Babel was erected
against a second deluge
310 to 312
Chap. 7. Of the mandrakes of Leah 312 to 317
Chap. 8. Of the three kings of Collein 317 to 319
Chap. 9. Of the food of John Baptist, locust
and wild honcy
319 to 321
Chap. 10. That John the Evangelist should
not die
321 to 326
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