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	§4. "Pseudodoxia Epidemica". X. Antiquaries. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and ...
		Its Greek and English titles Pseudodoxia Epidemica and (for short) Vulgar Errors are not, as has been sometimes erroneously thought, translations of each other.
		Perhaps, though it is less attractive to purely modern tastes of the most diverse kinds than the smaller works, an appreciation of Pseudodoxia is the real touchstone of appreciation of Browne generally.
		It is not unnatural that, to the mere man of science or the mere modernist of any kind, it should seem a scrap-heap of out-of-date observations, and its criticism hardly more valuable than its credulity.
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	Pseudodoxia Epidemica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second of its seven books entitled Tenets concerning Mineral and Vegetable Bodies includes Browne's experiments with static electricity and magnetism—the word electricity being one of many neologisms along with words such as medical, pathology, hallucination, literary, and computer, which Browne's vigorous inventiveness of scientific words introduced into the English language.
		A detailed edition of Pseudodoxia Epidemica in 2 volumes was published by Oxford University Press and edited by H. Robbins in 1986.
		Browne's Index to Pseudodoxia Epidemica: entitled An Alphabetical Table, records the wide spectrum of subjects covered.
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	Pseudodoxia Epidemica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Thomas Browne's vast work refuting the common errors and superstitions of his age Pseudodoxia Epidemica first appeared in 1646 and went through six editions, the last revision occurring in 1672.
		Subjects covered in Pseudodoxia are arranged in the time-honoured scale of creation, the learned doctor assaying to dispel errors and fallacies concerning the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms before refuting errors pictorial, to those of man, geography, astronomy and finally the cosmos.
		Although Pseudodoxia Epidemica has been ridiculed for its own errors, often by those who have not perused its pages, nevertheless it was a valuable source of information which found itself upon the shelves of many English familes throughout the seventeenth century.
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	Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Pseudodoxia Epidemica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica first appeared in 1646 and went through no less than six editions, the last revision occurring in 1676.
		In the preface to his work refuting common errors and superstitions of his age Browne specifically employs the word encyclopaedia.
		Although Pseudodoxia has been ridiculed for its own errors, nevertheless it was a valuable source of information and found itself upon the shelves of many English familes in the seventeenth century.
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	SIR THOMAS BROWNE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR THOMAS BROWNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1646 he published Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Enquiries into very many commonly received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths (1646), and in 1658 Ilydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall; or, a discourse of the sepulchrail urnes lately found in Norfolk.
		His first book, appeared in the year of the outbreak of the Civil War; Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the critical year of 1646; and Hydriotaphia, the reflections on the shortness of human life inspired by the unearthing of some funeral urns, on the eve of the Restoration.
		I love, he says, to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an 0, Altitudol The Pseudodoxia Epidemica, written in a more direct and simple style than is usual with Browne, is a wonderful storehouse of out-of-the-way facts and scraps of erudition, exhibiting a singular mixture of credulity and shrewdness.
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		Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica first appeared in 1646 and went through six editions, the last revision occurring in 1676.
		Although Pseudodoxia has been ridiculed for its own errors, nevertheless it was a valuable source of information which found itself upon the shelves of many English familes throughout the seventeenth century.
		In fact throughout the pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica evidence of Browne's empirical scientific nature and his formulation of scientific hypothesis can be found.
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		Aunque ha sido Pseudodoxia Epidemica ridiculed para sus propios errores, a menudo por los que no han leído sus páginas cuidadosamente, sin embargo era una fuente valiosa de la información que se encontró sobre los estantes de muchas familias inglesas a través del decimoséptimo siglo.
		Pseudodoxia fue traducido y publicado posteriormente en francés, holandés, latino y alemán a través del último decimoséptimo y temprano los décimo octavos siglos.
		Una edición detallada de Pseudodoxia Epidemica en 2 volúmenes fue publicada por la prensa de la universidad de Oxford y corregida por H. Robbins en 1986.
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		Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths...
		Browne (Sir Thomas) Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths...
		The rest of the title-page was printed from the same setting, 'so the change was probably made while the book was in the press.' Browne's complaint against the science of the day was that it turned its back on nature and relied on tradition.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Vulgar Errors
		Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a mouthful of a title, can be translated as “popular misconceptions”, or, as it was commonly known in its own time, “vulgar errors”.
		Browne, highly trained as a doctor and in related spheres of natural and experimental philosophy, was ideally qualified to participate in such a task, and of all the encyclopaedias of “errors” which were produced in the period, it is Browne's which has survived as a piece of literature as well as a scientific document.
		The most important section of Pseudodoxia is, however, not the errors themselves and their resolution, but the magisterial first book in which the genesis of error is traced and analysed.
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		Pseudodoxia Epidemica - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
		One final edition appeared in (1672) during the reign of King Charles II when the English scientific revolution was well in progress, culminating in Isaac Newton's discoveries.
		Browne's Index to Pseudodoxia* Epidemica : entitled An Alphabetical Table, it records the wide spectrum of subjects covered.
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	Encyclopedia: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
		The English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, specifically to the first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of...
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		Browne's Index to Pseudodoxia Epidemica (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Pseudodoxia_Epidemica_An_Alphabetical_Table): entitled An Alphabetical Table, records the wide spectrum of subjects covered.
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		The modern idea of the general purpose widely distributed printed encyclopedia goes back to just a little before Denis Diderot and the 18th century encyclopedists.
		Although John Harris is often credited with establishing the now-familiar encyclopedia format in 1704 with his Lexicon technicum, the English physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne specifically employed the word encyclopaedia in the preface to his readers to describe his work Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors as early as 1646.
		Pseudodoxia Epidemica also found itself upon the bookshelves of many educated European readers for throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries it was translated into the French, Dutch and German languages as well as Latin.
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		The term encyclopaedia was coined by fifteenth century humanists who misread copies of their texts of Pliny and Quintilian, and combined the two Greek words enkuklios paideia into one word.
		The English physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne specifically employed the word encyclopaedia as early as 1646 in the preface to his readers to describe his work Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series refutations of common errors of his age.
		John Harris is often credited with introducing the now-familiar alphabetic format in 1704 with his English Lexicon technicum.
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	Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, éditions Corti, 2004
		Pseudodoxia Epidemica fut publié en 1646; puis, en 1658, deux traités en un seul volume, Hydriotaphia et The Garden of Cyrus.
		Pseudodoxia Epidemica participe du même mouvement que celui qu'a entrepris Francis Bacon, tout en gardant l'aspect d'une longue recollection fascinée des mots et des choses.
		Outre des index nombreux qui transforment Pseudodoxia en dictionnaire (c'est aussi une manière de le lire), le traducteur a ajouté un copieux lexique.
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	§5. Browne’s “scepticism”. X. Antiquaries. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial was directly inspired by the discovery of certain sepulchral vessels in Norfolk; no equally definite origin is assigned for its singular companion The Garden of Cyrus—a discussion of the ubiquity and virtues of the quincuncial arrangement (:.:).
		They were the last things that he himself published—uniting them, a year after their first appearance, to Pseudodoxia in its third edition, and Religio in its fifth authorised form.
		Butler’s famous couplet about the “sage philosopher, that had read Alexander Ross over,” and, perhaps, some remarks in editions and notices of Browne, have occasioned a sort of general idea of Ross as a pattern Dunce or Obscurus Vir.
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		As a keen geographer, botanist and zoologist Browne wrote on America in his encyclopedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
		It is however in his Encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica that the most frequent references to America can be found.
		Also in Pseudodoxia Browne debates upon the folk-lore belief that it is good for one's health to be drunk once a month, ever the moralist he concluded-
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		Pseudodoxia is named after Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Sir Thomas Browne's vast work refuting the common errors and superstitions of his age.
		Pseudodoxia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by selected volunteers.
		Pseudodoxia's selected volunteers enforce a policy of "neutral point of view" whereby views presented by notable persons or literature are summarized without an attempt to determine an objective truth.
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		Pseudodoxia epidemica / Author: Browne, Thomas, Publisher: London : Faber and Gwyer ; New York : W.E. Rudge, Date: 1928.
		Pseudodoxia epidemica : or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, together with many more marginal observations, and a table alphabetical at the end / Author: Browne, Thomas, Publisher: London : Printed by J.R. for Nath.
		Whereunto is added Religio medici; and A discourse of the sepulchral-urnes lately found in Norfolk.
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		Pseudodoxia epidemica: or Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, 1646, was the only scientific work (or presumably scientific) that Browne published.
		Although it contains a chapter on magnetism, and discussions of optics and astronomy, natural history is nevertheless its primary focus.
		Pseudodoxia epidemica went through six editions, all likewise without dedications.
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		Hudibras, and the careful annotations of Treadway Nash and Zachary Grey, he would have been led on the merry chase to find Sir Thomas Browne's, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (or Vulgar Errors by which it is more commonly known.
		Browne is said to have "known how difficult it is to eradicate cherished beliefs from men's minds; but he does not despair of gaining a favorable hearing." "Though he professed his anxiety to dispel popular superstitions, Browne was himself not a little imbued with the spirit of credulity.
		He believed in astrology, alchemy, witchcraft, and magic...." Pseudodoxia Epidemica, known also as Vulgar Errors, is only rarely available as a reprint from Oxford University Press, 1981, or the more precious original editions.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall
		For all its recondite and at times eccentric learning, it is one of the most extraordinary prose works in the English language, a work whose very sound still rings clearly and distinctly from a century of magnificent prose.
		By the time of its publication (with The Garden of Cyrus) Browne was already a famous savant, the author of Religio Medici (1642), and Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Vulgar Errors (1646, 1650, 1658).
		This view of him as apolitical or at best mildly conservative is not particularly supported by the facts available, and is more likely the product of the academic preference for the overtly agonistic, which naturally makes Browne seem tame by comparison.
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		The Chinese depiction of the stork went along with other views and proclaimed the bird as a messenger of God.
		Thomas Browne, a 16th century writer, referred to storks in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
		He said that storks "are to be found, and only live, in republics or free states" (Browne, 27 iii).
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	Sir Thomas Browne
		In 1646 he published his "Pseudodoxia Epidemica," or Enquiries into Vulgar Errors.
		Evelyn paid a visit to Norwich for the express purpose of seeing him; and at length, on his 76th birthday (19th October 1682), he died, full of years and honours.
		Epidemica," and other learned works "per orbem notissimus." Yet his sleep was not to be undisturbed; his skull was fated to adorn a museum!
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		For 2005 the year of Browne's quattrocentennary, I've transcribed An Alphabetical Table which appendices Browne's encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
		Take a look at my harmless drudgery at Pseudodoxia Epidemica An Alphabetical Table.
		Verily 'tis a network of connections in the spheres of art, nature and mysticism upon the number five, the lozenge shape, the figure X and reticulated patterns; all of which are exemplary of the archetypal world and creative mind of God, all discerned and described in an ornate and Baroque stream-of-consciousness awareness.
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