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Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths

whereunto is added Religio medici, and A discourse of the sepulchral-urnes lately found in Norfolk : together with The garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial lozenge, or, Net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered : with sundry observations

Also known as Pseudodoxia epidemica

by Thomas Sir Browne & Thomas Browne

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Languages: English, Ancient Greek, Latin
  • Content type: Primary source
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14 unnumbered pages, 192, 203-322, 309-414 pages, 18 unnumbered pages; 8 unnumbered pages, 70 pages, 3 unnumbered plates : 4to (21 cm) Includes index "Hydriotaphia, urn-burial", originally published in 1658, has separate pagination, register, and dated title page with "printed for Henry Brome" in imprint; "The garden of Cyrus" has separate title page dated 1668; pagination and register are continuous

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Folklore” and “Superstition”. Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the subject metadata and “Superstition” in the subject metadata.

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Pseudodoxia epidemica

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1669-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Printed for the assigns of Edward DodEnglish—Public digitized item

Pseudodoxia Epidemica

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third edition; London: Printed by R. W. for Nath. Ekins, 1658

1658———Source listed online copy

Pseudodoxia epidemica

1972Scolar PressEnglish
  • 9780854178438
  • 0854178430
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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 10 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 11 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PR3327 .A675 1658
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: third edition; London: Printed by R. W. for Nath. Ekins, 1658
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