Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica
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Author
Contributions
- Robbins, Robin Hugh A. - Contributor
Publication
1981 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England
Language
English
Word Count
299,500 words, Guess
Page Count
1,198 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesirthomasbrownes0002brow
- Internet Archivesirthomasbrownes0001brow
- ISBN-100198127065
- ISBN-139780198127062
- Goodreads2163959
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- Library of Congress Control Number80041787
- OCLC Control Number8015407
- Better World Books9780198127062
- Open LibraryOL4116569M
Classifications
- DDC001.9/6
- LCCPR3327 .A27
- LCCPR3327.A27
Description
Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne refuting the common errors and superstitions of his age. It first appeared in 1646 and went through five subsequent editions, the last revision occurring in 1672. The work includes evidence of Browne's adherence to the Baconian method of empirical observation of nature, and was in the vanguard of work-in-progress scientific journalism in the 17th century scientific revolution, though he refers to his work as an encyclopaedia. Throughout its pages frequent examples of Browne's subtle humour can also be found. Browne's three determinants for obtaining truth were firstly, the authority of past authors, secondly, the act of reason and lastly, empirical experience. Each of these determinants are employed upon subjects ranging from the cosmological to common folklore. Subjects covered in Pseudodoxia are arranged in the time-honoured Renaissance scale of creation, the learned doctor assaying to dispel errors and fallacies concerning the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms before moving to errors pictorial, to those of man, geography, astronomy and finally of the cosmos.
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Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents, And commonly Presumed Truths
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The prose of Sir Thomas Browne: Religio medici, Hydriotaphia, The garden of Cyrus, A letter to a friend, Christian morals. With selections from Pseudodoxia epidemica, Miscellany tracts, and from MS notebooks and letters.
Edited, with an introd., notes, and variants, by Norman Endicott.
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