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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Volume II

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Author
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
Title
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2
Credits
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Religion and medicine
Category
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eBook-No.
39961
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39961
Release Date
August 5, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA
  5. 5.THE THIRD BOOK— continued
  6. 6.CHAPTER XI Of Griffins.
  7. 7.CHAPTER XII Of the Phœnix.
  8. 8.CHAPTER XIII Of Frogs, Toads, and Toad-stone.
  9. 9.CHAPTER XIV Of the Salamander.
  10. 10.CHAPTER XV Of the Amphisbæna.
  11. 11.CHAPTER XVI Of the Viper.
  12. 12.CHAPTER XVII Of Hares.
  13. 13.CHAPTER XVIII Of Moles, or Molls.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XIX Of Lampries.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XX Of Snayls.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XXI Of the Chameleon.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XXII Of the Ostrich.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XXIII Of Unicorns Horn.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XXIV That all Animals of the Land, are in their kind in the Sea.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XXV
  21. 21.CHAPTER XXVI Of Sperma-Ceti, and the Sperma-Ceti Whale.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XXVII
  23. 23.CHAPTER XXVIII Of some others.
  24. 24.THE FOURTH BOOK Of many popular and received Tenents concerning Man, which examined, prove either false or dubious.
  25. 25.CHAPTER I Of the Erectness of Man.
  26. 26.CHAPTER II Of the Heart.
  27. 27.CHAPTER III Of Pleurisies.
  28. 28.CHAPTER IV Of the Ring-finger.
  29. 29.CHAPTER V Of the right and left Hand.
  30. 30.CHAPTER VI Of Swimming and Floating.
  31. 31.CHAPTER VII Concerning Weight.
  32. 32.CHAPTER VIII Of the passage of Meat and Drink.
  33. 33.CHAPTER IX Of Sneezing.
  34. 34.CHAPTER X Of the Jews.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XI Of Pigmies.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XII Of the great Climacterical year, that is, Sixty three.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XIII Of the Canicular or Dog daies.
  38. 38.THE FIFTH BOOK Of many things questionable as they are commonly described in Pictures.
  39. 39.CHAPTER I Of the Picture of the Pelecan.
  40. 40.CHAPTER II Of the Picture of Dolphins.
  41. 41.CHAPTER III Of the Picture of a Grashopper.
  42. 42.CHAPTER IV Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve.
  43. 43.CHAPTER V Of the Picture of Adam and Eve with Navels.
  44. 44.CHAPTER VI Of the Pictures of Eastern Nations, and the Jews at their Feasts, especially our Saviour at the Passover.
  45. 45.CHAPTER VII Of the Picture of our Saviour with long hair.
  46. 46.CHAPTER VIII Of the Picture of Abraham sacrificing Isaac .
  47. 47.CHAPTER IX Of the Picture of Moses with horns.
  48. 48.CHAPTER X Of the Scutcheons of the Tribes of Israel.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XI Of the Pictures of the Sibyls .
  50. 50.CHAPTER XII Of the Picture describing the death of Cleopatra .
  51. 51.CHAPTER XIII Of the Pictures of the Nine Worthies.
  52. 52.CHAPTER XIV Of the Picture of Jephthah sacryficing his daughter.
  53. 53.CHAPTER XV Of the Picture of John the Baptist.
  54. 54.CHAPTER XVI Of the Picture of St. Christopher .
  55. 55.CHAPTER XVII Of the Picture of St. George .
  56. 56.CHAPTER XVIII Of the Picture of Jerom .
  57. 57.CHAPTER XIX Of the Pictures of Mermaids , Unicorns , and some others.
  58. 58.CHAPTER XX Of the Hieroglyphical Pictures of the Egyptians .
  59. 59.CHAPTER XXI Of the Picture of Haman hanged.
  60. 60.CHAPTER XXII Compendiously of many questionable Customs, Opinions, Pictures, Practices, and Popular Observations.
  61. 61.CHAPTER XXIII Of some others.
  62. 62.THE SIXTH BOOK Of sundry common opinions Cosmographical and Historical
  63. 63.CHAPTER I
  64. 64.CHAPTER II
  65. 65.CHAPTER III
  66. 66.CHAPTER IV
  67. 67.CHAPTER V
  68. 68.CHAPTER VI
  69. 69.CHAPTER VII Of East, and West.
  70. 70.CHAPTER VIII Of the River Nilus .
  71. 71.CHAPTER IX Of the Red Sea.
  72. 72.CHAPTER X Of the Blackness of Negroes .
  73. 73.CHAPTER XI Of the same.
  74. 74.CHAPTER XII A Digression concerning Blackness.
  75. 75.CHAPTER XIII Of Gypsies.
  76. 76.CHAPTER XIV Of some others.

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