Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Commonly Presumed Truths, 1646.
Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile edition, 4to, (iv, xx), 386 pp. Blue cloth, spine slightly sunned. A famous collection of superstitions and beliefs containing "...an extraordinary amount of learning and research... To modern readers [it] presents an inexhaustible store of entertainment. The attainment of scientific truth was not for Browne the sole object; it is in the discussion itself that he delights, and the more marvellous a fable is, the more sedulously he applies himself to the investigation of its truth" (DNB). Item #52821
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