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NORWICH:
PRINTED BY JOSIAH FLETCHER.
CONTENTS TO VOLUME THIRD.
PAGE
PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA, books 4 to 7... 1 to 374
THE FOURTH BOOK; the particular part continued.
Of many popular and received tenets con-
cerning man.
Chap. 1. That only man hath an erect figure
Chap. 2. That the heart is on the left side
Chap. 3. That pleurisies are only on the left
Chap. 4. Of the ring finger
Chap. 5. Of the right and left hand
Chap. 6. On swimming and floating
Chap. 7. That men weigh heavier dead than
alive, and before meat than after
1 to 4
5 to 7
7 to 8
8 to 13
13 to 23
24 to 27
28 to 31
31 to 32
33 to 36
36 to 43
43 to 47
47 to 68
Chap. 11. Of pygmies
Chap. 12. Of the great climacterical year,
is, sixty-three
Chap. 13. Of the canicular or dog-days
THE FIFTH BOOK; the particular part continued.
Of many things questionable as they are
commonly described in pictures; of many
popular customs, &c.
Chap. 1. Of the picture of the pelican
Chap. 2. Of the picture of dolphins
Chap. 3. Of the picture of a grasshopper
Chap. 4. Of the picture of the serpent tempt-
ing Eve
vi
Chap. 5. Of the picture of Adam and Eve with
navels
Chap. 6. Of the pictures of the Jews and
Eastern Nations, at their feasts, especially
our Saviour at the Passover
Chap. 7. Of the picture of our Saviour with
long hair
Chap. 8. Of the picture of Abraham sacrificing
Isaac
99 to 102
102 to 110
111 to 112
113 to 114
114 to 116
117 to 122
Chap. 9. Of the picture of Moses with horns Chap. 10. Of the scutcheons of the twelve tribes of Israel
Chap. 11. Of the pictures of the sybils 122 to 123
Chap. 12. Of the picture describing the death
of Cleopatra
124 to 126
Chap. 13. Of the pictures of the nine worthies 127 to 131
Chap. 14. Of the picture of Jephthah sacrific-
ing his daughter
Chap. 15. Of the picture of John the Baptist
in a camel's skin
Chap. 16. Of the picture of St. Christopher
Chap. 17. Of the picture of St. George
Chap. 18. Of the picture of St. Jerome
Chap. 19. Of the pictures of mermaids, uni-
corns, and some others
131 to 134
134 to 136
136 to 138
138 to 140
141 to 143
143 to 148
148 to 152
Chap. 21. Of the picture of Haman hanged 153 to 155
Chap. 22. Of the picture of God the Father;
of the sun, moon, and winds, with others
Chap. 23. Compendiously of many popular cus-
toms, opinions, &c.
156 to 161
162 to 173
Chap. 24. Of popular customs, opinions, &c. 174 to 184
THE SIXTH BOOK; the particular part continued.
Of popular and received tenets, cosmographi-
cal, geographical, and historical.
Chap. 1. Concerning the beginning of the
world, that the time thereof is not precisely
known, as commonly it is presumed .
185 to 200
vii
Chap. 2. Of men's enquiries in what season or
point of the Zodiack it began, that, as they
are generally made, they are in vain, and as
particularly, uncertain .
Chap. 3. Of the divisions of the seasons and four quarters of the year, &c.
201 to 203
204 to 209
Chap. 4. Of some computation of days and de-
ductions of one part of the year unto another 210 to 213
Chap. 5. A digression of the wisdom of God
in the site and motion of the sun
Chap. 6. Concerning the vulgar opinion that
the earth was slenderly peopled before the
213 to 219
219 to 235
Chap. 12. A digression concerning blackness 281 to 287
THE SEVENTH Book; the particular part concluded.
Of popular and received tenets, chiefly his-
torical, and some deduced from the Holy
Scriptures.
287 to 290
290 to 293
Chap. 1. That the forbidden fruit was an apple 295 to 299
Chap. 2. That a man hath one rib less than a
woman
Chap. 3. Of Methuselah
299 to 301
301 to 304
Chap. 4. That there was no rainbow before the
Chap. 5. Of Shem, Ham, and Japheth 308 to 310
Chap. 6. That the tower of Babel was erected
against a second deluge
Chap. 7. Of the mandrakes of Leah
Chap. 8. Of the three kings of Collein
Chap. 9. Of the food of John Baptist, locust
and wild honey
.
Chap. 10. That John the Evangelist should