Hi Dominique, I am so very sorry for the protracted delay in finishing this short piece, shall understand if you no longer

wish to use it. My 'excuses' include illness, relationship termination, depression, xmas , snow and laziness ! I had hoped that the whole essay would be of use to you, using my name in association with Browne would have resulted in far greater 'hits' for your web-site. I've entrusted you (the long essay) with what i consider to be a quite an original piece of lengthy research and interpretation, what will you do with it? Delete or be discreet? Looking at the number of sponsers listed on your web-site amazes me. I've been involved in promoting and studying Browne for 14 years now and have never had that much luck in attracting sponsership, having to do everything off my own bat so to speak. Did you look at my other on-line essays? (Just type sir thomas browne kevin faulkner into google to find them). Please , please don't forget me should anything else come up about Browne as he is my primary artistic project. From a visual imaginative aspect the Museum tract is well worth developing, Sebald brought it to prominence in 'The Rings of Saturn' . Be careful not to stray too far from facts ! People do have a tendency to mould Browne into their own artistic perspective/ideological stance. Reading Religio gives a great psychological insight into the man while Pseudodoxia has many instances of B's sly hiumour. Not entirely convinced that fragility is a particular theme of Browne's, Kristof's 'expert witness' statement unravels years of attempting to keep the witch-trial in proportion. But if you look at the other major works there is some dodgy non PC stuff including a very dangerous statement about Islam in Religio Medici, a product of his times maybe, but also a real incendenary quotation in the wrong hands. Am still writing a book on him from an esoteric perspective. Some interesting connections to Kabbalah and Thomas Vaughan, for example Vaughan describes the prima materia of the alchemists as the 'couch of Venus' in Cyrus one reads of 'the bed of Cleopatra'. Hope that the attached pics can be used, but if you feel that you no longer wish to edit in html anymore okay. Hoping we meet again in warmer times! Cannot resist these two topical quotes 'Miseries are slippery,or fall like snow upon us' and 'which maketh Pyramids pillars of snow' both from chapter 5 Urn-Burial All the very best Kevin. HI Kevin, AS long as your name does not feature on the POCA (protection of children act) or POVA (protection of vulnerable adults) list then you are prefectly entitled to aply for any work. Just because you have a criminal record does not mean that you barred from the type of work u wish to do. If you are applying for work that involves a CRB check (which work in care and education

would do) then all cautions and convictions would show. THis is because the employer is allowed full access to your record as the positions you are applying for are exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974. Therefore they are allowed to take into consideration anything that shows on a CRB check, however if they are happy with your explanation as to why it occured and why it would not occur again then there is no reason as to why you would not get the job. Make sure you inform the empolyer of your record before they get the disclosure back, this way you look a more honest and trustworthy candidate but you can also put the offences into context. Address issues such as relevance of the offence, seriousness of it, how long ago it was, circumstances at the time and change of circumstances since then. Reassure the empolyer that you do not pose a present day risk. If your conviction is spent then you would not have to disclose this for jobs that do not involve a CRB. I have attached our guide on applying for work with a criminal record. I hope this is helpful. I aquired my very own copy of Sir Thomas Browne's vast catalogue of refuted errors Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly Presumed Truths (1646) via an ebay auction in March 2006. It's providence was from charlottesville, Loiusiana. No copies surivie of publications of Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus but amazingly appended to this edition of Pseudodoxia is . The Discourses open with the two dedicatory epistles first, following each other, strong evidence that its author intentended the two Discourses to be read and meditated upon jointly. Pseudodoxia was in fact one of the earliest, if not the first, of the many an early european encyclopedia which contributed to the 17th century scientific revolution. Although to us today with our vastly increased scientific knowledge , Pseudodoxia may itself contain 'vulgar' or common errors itself in other ways modern readers Pseudodoxia (also known as Vulgar Errors)prepared a readership for much of the way for popular scientific journalism subsequently published in England. . In its day Pseudodoxia Epidemica was a best-seller and was placed upon the shelves of many English households. It was published in no less than six editions (1646,1650,1658 twice,1659 and 1672) and translated into several European languages. Appendiced to Browne's encyclopaedia is a so-called An Alphabetical Table. In all probability this index was compiled by Browne. It has never previously before been published in any edition of Browne's works , so is available here for the very first time. And just as Jore borges Lonce declared to write vast books is a laborious ., a quick scroll down of the topics listed here soon the breadth and depth of Browne's curiousity, knowledge and scientific investigation. which indicates the wide spectrum of subjects covered in its pages.the Index lists his main sources as authors commended, his many experiments as well as the astronomical, historical, biblical and zoological queries which preoccupied him . Queries range from the cosmological such as 'Cosmographers, why they divide their Globe into East and West', to the theological - 'whether our B. Saviour ever laughed', to the aesthetic '-Beauty- Determined chiefly by opinion, or the several apprehensions of people', to the medical '-Drunkenness, or to be drunk once a moneth, whether it be healthfull', to the revealing esoteric entry ,'-Philosophers Stone, not improbable to be procured' . However an entry such as, 'Abilities, (scientifical especially,) ought to be improved' and' Candle, one discharged out of a Musket through an inch board', are indicative of the empirical nature of Browne's essentially Baconian quest. Page numbers by entry refer to the 1658 fourth edition and will be replaced by standardised Book and Chapter listings of modern editions shortly. pp. 1 - pp. 51 Book 1 pp.53 - pp.118 Book 2 pp. 119 -pp. 228 Book 3

pp.229 - pp.284 Book 4 pp. 285 - pp. 331 Book 5 pp. 333 - pp. 417 Book 6 pp.419 - pp.468 Book 7 Source : 1658 edition of Pseudodoxia Epidemica

An alphabeticall Table
Abel, his Epitaph, and age at death.424 Abilities, (scientifical especially,) ought to be improved. 20 Abraham. 328,406 Absolo, how hanged. 441 Abstinence from meat how (possibly) prolonged by some animals. 201 Abundance of flyes, magots, what they signifie. 113 Accubation, the ancient gesture at meals. 293,294 Achitphel how he might dies. 441 Adam. 2,3,169,184,242,292,334,273 Adams Navel 292 How elder then Methusalah 224 Adrian the Emperour 28 Aegypt, how primitively it became firm land. 335 How called anciently 376 Subject to rain. 392 Aegyptians 335 Their antiquity. 336 Aegyptian Pollinctors, or anointers of the dead, their prodigous carnality. 446 Aelian, his Character, 22,33 Aequator. 354 Aequinoxes their Anticipation. 270 Aequvocation. 14

Aschylus his death. 463 Aetnas, or fiery hills. 391 Age of our B. Saviour. 342 Age of the world. 332 Agriculture. 349,350 Advent of Christ. 342 Air. 199 Albertus Magnus his Character. 35 Aldrovandus, his diligence commended. 258 Alexander. 307 Allegorical precepts of Pythagoras. 14 Almonds not good against drunkeness. 113 Alphonsus Duke of Ferrara, his power. 99 Alvarez a Jesuit. 102 Amber how engenderd. 91 Ambodexters. 239,242 America, 70 Amphibologie. 14 Amphisbana? 177 Amulets. 95 Amulets against Agues. 330 Analogie, or correspondence betwixt the globes coelestial and terrestial. 350 Anchovy. 143 Andes, a hill in Peru. 390 Animals the transmutation of their Sex and Species. 183 Anibal, his eating through the Alps with vinegar. 462 Antaci, who they be. 84 Antropomorphites, what they were 324

Antidotes. 460 Commonly had from Animals nourished by posionous aliments. Ibid Antimony. 249 Antipathies 220 Antipodes. 26,381 Antiquity. 21 Primitively how fabulous. 23 Antonius Mizaldus 36 Anus, Etymologically what 305 Ape, of exquisite taste. 449 Apis, the Aegyptian Idol 402 Apetite sensual 9 Apuleius. 23 Aqua forte 412 Aqudeucts, why commonly adorned with Lyons heads 325 Arabian learning what 455 Arcadians, their antiquity. 336 In what sense elder then the moon. Ibid. Archimedes his burning glasses, 463 His removing the earth. 464 Arepagus what. 42 Argus. 192 Aristotles errors 15,22. His arguing for the eternity of the world. 334 Never disputed the ebbing and flowing of the Sea. 445 His maxim touching felicity. 311 Aristotle, a Proselyte of Moses Law. 44 His death. Ibid.

Where he dies. Ibid. Art. 409 Ashes what proportion of water they will contain. 96 Why they are white. 409 Ascendent in the Astrologicall Scheme, what. 383 Asp the Serpent. 305 Asphaltides, or the lake of Sodom. 451 Why bodies sink not easily therein. Ibid. Ass, the Animal of that kind. 409 Astomi or Plinies men without mouths 198 Astrologers. 12,270 Astrologie. 283 Atheism rejected. 40 Whether any Atheist. Ibid. Athenaeus his Character. 22,34 Athenians. 334 Attraction Electrical 86,87,88,89 Attraction magnetical. 73 Aurum potabile 201 Authority, 27,28,29 Azores,or Islands of S.Michael 386 Babel tower, why attempted to be built. 429 Babylon, where situated. 397 Badger, the Animal 147 Baptista Porta, his Character 36 Barley 183 Baronius 439 Basil, the herb: whether it propagates Scorpions. 116

Basils Hexameron 35 Basilisk the Serpent 150-153 Bayes, whether good against thunder 112 Bear, the Animal 148,149 Beasts clean and unclean 210 Beauty, what it is 407,408 Determined chiefly by opinion, or the several apprehensions of people. Ibid. Bees. 221 Beeves of England, A Million of them killed yearly. 372 Beginning of the world 334,345 Belisarius his glories, and supposed misfortunes at last. 457 His hard usage of Pope Sylerrius 458 Bellonius, his diligence commended. 11 Belomancy,or divination by Arrows 330 Belus 16,429 Belus and Nimrod, Gen.10. the same person. 376 Bemata, anciently what they were. 307 Bersus 369 Bernacles, or the Goose-trees. 227 Bever the Animal. 144,145, 146, Bezoar, commonly so esteemed. 205 Bible corrupted by the Jews. 337 Depravations in the original text. 339 Hebrew and Greek copies discordant ibid. 340 Birth. 149. Birth of the eighth moneth. 270 Admirable Births. 423 Bittor. 218

Blackness, the causes therof probably. 410,411,412 Blindness. 187 188 Boats portable 77 Bochartus his Geographia Sacra, commended 378 Bodies incombustible 175 Bodies drowed why they float after a time. 246 Heavy bodies, in what quantity of liquor commonly they swim. 451 Boetius de Boot commended 77 Bos in lingua. 155,156 Boramez, a Plant animal, or the lamb of Tartary. 227 Brain of man. 233 Briareus. 24 Brimstone. 97 Brittains, their simplicity of old. 386 Brutes some of them were organized for speech. 139 Brutus and Cassius. 47 Cabala of the Stars. 416,427 Cabeus. 71,88 Cain whether he intended to kill Abel 3,371,425 Cairo. 390 Cambden his description of great Britain. 445 Camelion. 193,194,195 Camel. 156,404 Camp of the Israelites. 385 Camhries operation. 115,410 Canaan the son, why cursed for the fact of Cham his father, Gen, 9. 405 Canaries or the fortunate Islands. 386 Candle, one discharged out of a Musket through an inch board. 466

Candlemas day. 351 Candles burning blue. 328 Canibals. 404 Carbuncle whether it shine in the dark. 103 Cardans character. 36 Causes of common errours 1. Weaknesse of human nature 8 2.Erroneous disposition in man. 9 3. Misapprehension. Ibid. 4. Painters. 39 Centaures 13 Cham the son of Noah, he and Jupiter the same person. 429 Chams progenie how extended. 405,406 Chaldeans, their Records how antient. 336 By what years they compute the antiquity of their letters. 370 Charcaol how tis made black. 410 Charon the ferry-man of hell, who he was 24 Cheek-burning. 321 Chiromancy or divination by inspection of the hand. 327,328 Cherry-stones. 201 Black-cherries. 413 China dishes of what matter. 102 Their supposed vertue against poysons. 459 Chicken. 225 Choler. 140 Cholerick men shorter livd. 269 Christian religion. 10 Christian Chronology how uncertain. 337

Chus, his issue how dispersed. 406 Cinnamon what it is how made. 109 Clemens Alexandrinus. 23 Cleopatra dying. 305 Climactertical year. 260 The opinion thereof whence (probably) promoted. 280 Climates. 348 Clocks no ancient invention. 315 Clouds, how far from the earth. 98 Clove what they be. 109 Cockatrice. 150,151 Cocks-egg. 153 Coition. 185,186 Colours. 152, 413 The principles of colour. 397 Colours whether essential to beauty. 407 Columbus. 70 Comets. 417 Conception, 186,255. Conception in a Bath. 452 Congelation or freezing. 54,58 Conies, their numerous multiplication. 156 Constantinople. 374 Copperose, what it is. 411 Coral whether soft under water: 101 How of a plant it becomes a stone . Ibid. Why worn about Chilldrens necks. 329 Cosmographers, why they divide their Globe into East and West. 386

Costiveness. 140 Countreys, their peculiar rarities, whence proceeding. 383 Creature, generally all of them meat for some people. 212 Their dependence upon God. 292 Creatures presaging Weather. 161 Creatures subterraneous. 60 Credulity, what. 17 Cresses 183 Critical day, what it is. 264 Crystal not ice. 53 Not snow congealed. Ibid. What it is. 59 Severall differences. 56 Commonly six cornered. 58 Chrocodile, not proper only to Nilus. 391 Why reported to have no period of growth, 452 Crocus Martis. 71 Crows, in some places white. 399 Ctesias Cnidius, his Character 31 Cucumbers whether obnoxious, 117 Cure of the Prussian knife. 81 Cures Supersticious or Magical. 48 Q.Curtius 137 Customes supersticious &c. 320,321 Customes laudably begun, not alwaies necessarily followed. 455 Cuttlefish.413 Daedulus and Icarus 24 Dagon the Idol, of what figure or shape. 316

Daniels seventy weeks. 342 David, what his sin was in numbering the people. 440 David George. 11 Day natural what. 353 Daies of the week, how anciently named from the Planets. 330 Daies of the year, how they increase and decrease. 350 Daies anciently held to be ominous or unfortunate. 352 Declination of the Sun. 350,351 Deer. 156,157 Deformities specifical not to be granted. 217 Delos the Isle, why said to be in the midst of the earth. 350 Deluge, whether universal. 369 Mentioned by heathen Authors. Ibid. At what age of the world it was. 364,365 The Deity. 40 Demosthenes, why said to be the son of a Black-smith. 456 Denarius, or the penny of the Gospel, what 298 Devils illusion. 1. that there is no god 41 2. that there are many. Ibid 3. that himself is god. 42 4.that he is left then angels or men. 44 5.that he is nothing at all. Ibid. 6. by Dreams, stars and meteors. 42 7.by augures 47 8. by Philters, /ligaments and charms. 48 Devil painted white, by whom 407 Dextral activity, whence it is. 239

Diamond whether broken in goats blood. 91 Didrachmum, what 441 Differences of hours. 84 Diodorus Siculus 370 Diogenes Cynicus. 268 Diogenes his Tub. 318 Diomedes his horses 24 Dionysus Heracleoticus. 268 Dionisius Petavius. 337 Dioscordes, his Character. 32 Diseases determined by seasons. 280 Diseases Chronical and acute. 282 Dissolution of bodies concrete. 55 Dogs, how they single out their masters in the dark. 253 The variety of their shape and colours. 404 Dog-star 274,275,276,280,401 Dog-days 273. Why so hot. 279 Dolphins. 287 Dooms-day. 345 Dove. 141,142,143, Drachma what. 440 Dragon, how destroyed by Daniel. 3 Dreams. 42,43 Drowning 246,247 Drunkeness statary, or to be tipled once a moneth, whether it be healthfull 326 How caused 113 Dyars their Art 413

Dyet of the Ancients 212 Of the Tartars ibid. Ear tinglings. 321 Earthquakes , how they are caused 198 The Earth, how tis a Magnetical body. 62 Earth habitable in all parts of it. 354 How peopled before the flood 369,370,371 Earths motion, one instance against it 463 East and West in nature 380,381 Gesticulations towards the East 384,385 Education 39 Effluxions coporeal 63 Eggs.226,246 Eggshell, why it must be broken, when the meat is out. 321 Electrical bodies, what 86 Differences in attracting. Ibid. How performed 87 Elderberies whether poyson or not. 117 Elephant 135,136,137,156,307 Elephants, their docility. 138,138 Their age commonly. 372 Their trunk for what it serves them. 449 Elias the Rabbin 338 Elves-locks 323 Emblemes of a Guardian. 164 Of fecundity. 319 Of abortion. Ibid. Of Deformity. Ibid.

Emblem of superstition. 321 Ephialites, or the night-mare.330 Epicurians. 42 Epicurius, his life and manners. 461 His doctrine of felicity. 462 Epiphanius. 15 Errors in 5 speches in scripture before the deluge. 6,7 13 Errors about Christ 45,46 Eternity. 293 Etymologies ridiculous 105 Eve. 1,2,291 Why she wondered not at the Serpent speaking 290,291 Eunuchs. 157 Euripus what it is. 447 Whether that of Eubea or Negroponte, ebbs and flows is pretended. 444 Fabbi of Rome their story, what may be thought of it. 463 Fables Poetical.explicated. 24 Fallacies in words and deeds. 13,14 Famianus Strada a Jesuit. 85 Fascination. 152 Fasting. 199 Faith, Theological what it is. 465 Fear. 155 Hydrophobia or Fear of water upon biting of a mad dog. 283 Figure of nan erect, what 229 What Seiante or sitting? Ibid. Figures of things whence. Fire Culinary, or of the kitchin. 199

Striking fire. Ibid. Flesh not commonly eaten before the flood. 209 Flies. 221,224 Fluctus decumanus, or the tenth wave. 458 Food, possibly sufficient without eating flesh. 209 Forbidden fruit. 419 Formation in the matrix or womb. 149 Franciscus Sanctius. 29 Frogs. 171,172 Frier Bacon, the mysterie of his brazen head. 461 Fuligo, properly what. 409 Fumus what. 410 Galen. 10,28 Galens honest intentions in his discourses of poisons. 468 Galilaeus, his Systema mundi 447 Gall of beasts. 139 Ganges the river. 389 Genealogies, those in H.Scripture differently reckoned. 265 Generation. 157,168,452 Generation by gelded Animals. 241 Generation by the devil not probable. 452 Generations aequivoval, yet regular. 107 Genius, or the natural inclination of men, where especially to be regarded. 20 Geographers, not any compleat, or describing all the habitable parts of the earth 379 Geryon and Cerberus. 24 Gihon the river, Gen.2. how lost. 387 Dr. Gilbert commended. 70 Ginger what it is, and how made. 109

Girdle, its symbolical signification. 323 Brides-Girdle. 321 Glass. 55,92. Glass what made of. 76 Venice glass not broken by poyson. Ibid. Whether it be poyson. 92 Whether malleable. 93 Glow-worm 222,223 Goat. 156,319,327. Goats blood. 91 Gold, whether a cordiall. 94 Its swimming in Quicksilver. 451 Gold potable. 170 Goropius Becanus. 204 Graecia Mendax. 23 Grasshopper. 288,289 Mr. Greaves, his description of the Pyramids. 393 Gregorian Account. 352 Griffins. 163,164 Gunpowder its ingredients. 97 Its Rarefaction in Gunns to what proportion. Ibid. Gunpowder which makes no reports, whether possibl. 70,98 Gypsies, their original. 414 First known in Germany. Ibid. Emissaries or Spies of the Grand Signior. 415 [edit] H-L Hand, right and left 237,238 Hand-gout. 237

Hares, 182,183 Hare and cabbage, Catos diet. 211 The Indian Hare. 404 Heart of man, how placed. 231,232 Hebrew language. 528 Hector. 307 Dr. Heilins history of St. George. 313 Henry the Emperour, probably not poysoned in the Chalice. 467 Heraclitus his folly. 467 Hercules. 318 Heresies touching our B. Saviour. 45,46 Hermaphrodites. 169,185 Herod. 11 Herodotus Halicarnssaeus, his Character. 31 Hevelius, his Selenography or description of the Moon. 416 Hieroglyphicks, whose Invention. 38 Hieroglyphicks of the Deity. 325 Of Love. 421 Of Fertility. 423 Authors Hieroglyphical. 38 Hippocrates 21,279 His Aphorisms. 380 Hollanders. 352 Homers death. 448 Horn, what it signifies Hieroglyphically. 301 Horizon rational and sensible. 354,355 Horse. 139 Horse kicked by a wolf. 319

Horses 280000 brought into field by Ninus,500000, by Semiramis. 372 Hugo Grotius commended. 28 Hum-bird in America, a bird little bigger then a beetle. 390 Hysop on the wall. 431 Ianus and Noah, by some taken for the same person. 377 Ice to be made at any time. 55 Idolatry, 11,12,13 Jepthah (Jud.11) killed not by his daughter. 309 Jeronymus Cardanus his Character. 36 Jews-ear. 116 Jews. 253 How dispersed 254 Some of their tribe quite lost. Ibid. Uncertain in their Chronologie, or account of their times. 336 Why prescribed in their dyet. 211 Not generally of any ill favour. 253,254 Commonly of counsell to the Turks great Others, or Bvashas. Ibid. Their Captivities. 341 Their Intercalary moneth. 349 Their sedulity to preserve their Bible entire. 339 Their Malignity against the Septuagint. 340 Wandering Jew, his story. 460 Imagination the power therof. 402 Imposters. 1 Improlification or Barrenness in Women one cause of it. 452 Ink how made. 411,412 Insects. 114,222,223 Intercalation of dayes. 272 Intoxication. 113 Johannes Tzerzes his Character. 35 Job, an Idumaen or of the race of Esau. 424 Sr. John Mandevil, his Character. 32 St. John Baptist, his dyet what 435

St. John the Evangelist, his death 437 Why natural, and not by martyrdom. 438 When he wrote his Revelation. Ibid. How long he survived our B. Saviour. 439 Cast into a caldron of burning oyl. ibid. Comming out untoucht. ibid. His Reliques at Ephesus doing cures. ibid. Jonah's gourd. 431 Josephus 369 Jovius, his Character. 32 Ireland. 409 Spiders observed in Ireland. 452 Iron, its verticity. 65,66,,202 Isaac,at what age he should have been sacrificed. 300 Ishmael. 424 Isidorus Hispalensis. 35 Islands, whether any before the flood. 379 Sundry Islands came to be stored with Animals. 404 Ithmum perfoder 394 Italy. 405 Judas whether he hang'd himself. 441 Judgements by urin. 11 Julia. 185 Julian account. 352 Julian the Apostate. 10 Julius Solinus his Character. 23,33 Ivy cup its property. 117 Sr. Kenelm Digby, commended 88,89

King of Serpents. 150 Kings of Collein. 434 Kings-fisher. 161 Kiranides, his Character. 30,35 Kircherus commended. 70,85 Knowledge intuitive, or that of Spirits. 50 Lamech. 7 Lamp. 197 Lampries. 189 Laughter, what kind of passion. 453 The kinds of laughter. 454. Whether our B. Saviour never laughed. ibid. Lead. 201 Leandro his description of Italy. 445 Learning and arts primitively from whence. 386 Leeches. 93 Levinus Lemnius 70,433 Licetus commended. 103 Lightning without Thunder why. 98 Limmon. 412 Line Ecliptick. 354 Liquation or melting. 57 Livia. 153 Livie's Ox. 464 Loadstone its verticity. 66,67 not known to antiquity. 68 its inclination. 67 Declination and variation. 68

causes of this variety. 69 the change of this variety. ibid its attraction not hindered by garlick or a diamond. 74 whether it attracts any thing but Iron. 76 how to preserve it. ibid how destroyed. ibid. errors of attraction in Loadstones. 77 whether it can suspend a body in the ayr. 80 Loadstone powder what operation. ibid. whether it cures the gout. 81 Longevity of Animals, how collected. 156,157 Longomontanus 342 Lots wife,her transformation. 441 Lubim. 406 Lucian. 23 Lues venerea, wher it first began. 404 Lupus est in fabula. 155 Lybia, its driness 401 [edit] M-P Mace, that is the skin of a nutmeg.109 Macrcephali, or people with long heads 403 Macroscelism or slender legs, how happen 308 Mahomet 10,11,16,18,38. Mahomets Camel 464 Mahomets tomb hangs not in the ayr 79 Mahomtans, partaking of all religion.384 Magi, or the Wise men (Mat.2.) what manner of Kings they might be. 434

Magnes carneus. 73 Magneticall, body what 62 Effects , how wrought 63 Rocks, whether Magneticall 79 Magnetisms pretended,83,84,85 Man, his growth and decrement, how proportioned 351 Whether Mans body be Magneticall 77 Mandrake, imposture about the root. 107 How produced.107 Whether it endangerth life to pull it up. Ibid Magots turne into flyes.114 Manna. 432 Marcellus Empericus, a Plagiarie. 23 Marcus Leo the Jew. 338 St. Mark where he wrote his Gospel. 299 Marrow Spinal, what it is. 386 Mauritania and the coast of Africk, ny whom peopled at first. 378 Mears, peculiar to some Nations, through custom or supersticion. 211,212,213 Meazels.255 Medea 24 Meditation upon the Passion.438 Men, lighter before sleep, then before; dead then alive; in Summer then in Winter.248 Mercurialis, his Gymnastica commended 136, 293 The Meridian. 68 [edit] N-S Nayles, how to be made red. 466 Nayl-spots, whether significative 327 Nordus pisticus, Mar.14 or the ointment in the Gospel, of what composition. 431 Names ridiculously derived.105,116

Names cause of errors.61 Nations, generally now mixt by Commerce or Conquest.254 Nativites, why taken from the ascendent.383 Navill, what it is, and for what use 291 Navil of Birds, Snakes, of Poriwiggles,&c. 293 Nazarite, by birt, or by vow. 441 Neck of Animals, how contrived by Nature, and for what. 448 Negroes, their blackness 397,398,399 The particular causes thereof 402,403 Negroes in America, not Indigene, or Natives of that Countrey.399 Nerves, whence they spring.235 Nerves of taste. 448 Nicander, his Character.34 Nidor, properly what.409 Nierembergius a Jesuit, his conceit of man. 76 Niger, a river in Africa.389 Nigromancy in raysing spirits, souls &c. rejected.42 Nightingale, the tongue how fashioned.450 Why said to sit with its breast against a Thorn.228 Nilus, the river, its Ostiaries, or severall fallings into the sea. 387,388 What causeth its overflowing. 162,391 Some years it overflows not. 392 Ninus, and Assur mentioned , Gen.10 the same person 376 Noahs Ark, wher it first rested.386 Noah, whether he knew the effect of wine, before he was overtaken. 326 Noah and Saturne , held to be the same person.429 Northern passsage to the Indies.69 Noses, the Moorish, the Persian, the Roman. 408

Numbers, their mysterious or supersticious consideration 260,261 Nutmeg.109 Nutrition, of what qualities the ailment must be.195 Oates 183 Object, why sometimes appearing double. 192 Observations superticious 321,322 Oestridge, how it eats Iron. 200 Olas Magus. 78,399 Olympiads, in what year of the world they began. 370 Ophir, what place. 71 Opium, its effect in venery.433 Oppan, his Character. 34 Opticks, a Maxime in them.353 Oracles .15 Their ceasing.422 The acknowledged cause thereof. Ibid Oracle of Praneste, of Antium, of Delphos. 442 Oreglian, a river in America. 389 Orestes 10 Organs, in the intention of Nature infer the action proper for them.188,193 Organ of taste.448 Orgasmus, what 180 Oribasius, Physitian to Julian.116 A Plagarie , or Transcriber of Galen 23 Orpheus, his Harp.24 Osorius 137 Osyris, and Mizraim mentioned, Gen 10. the same person 377 Ovid, a plagaries of whom.23

Ovum decumanum, the reason of the proverb 458 Owl, an ominous bird. 320 Palmestrie 327 Palmes, on which side most commonly they happen.242 Panama, an Isthmus in America 394 Pancirollus 70 Paracelsus, his Character. 29 At what age he died.170 Pretending a possibility of making men immortal. Ibid Parricide, its punishment. 178 Parysatis, her poysoned knife.459 Passages of meat and drink.249,250 Passover.349 Passion, Irascible, Concupiscible, whence they rise. 142 Pausanias, his description of Greece. 445 Peacock 217 Pedantism 25 Pedamontanus 36 Pelican 285,286 People of Rome.12 St. Peter crucified.438 Petrcius, what it signifieth.373 Phaenicians, their several plantations or Colonies.378 Whence descended 395 Phoenix, the bird. 165,166 Philes, his Character.35 Philosophers Stone, not improbable to be procured.170 Philoxenus his wish.448

His Incivility.449 Phlebotomies,or letting blood.236 Physick, better prepared now , then anciently 282 Picture, of our B. Saviour, with long hair 229 PicturesOf the four Evangelists 303 Of the Sibyls 304 Of Cleopatra 305 Of the nine Worthies 306 Of Jeptha 308 Of St. John Baptist 311 Of St. Christopher 312 Of St. George 313 Of Saint Hieronymus 314 Of Mermaids, Unicorns &c. 316 Pigmies, no such people 257,258 Pineda 71 Pismire 224 Pitch, why black, and Rosin not so.410 Plagarism, or transcribing of Authors 23 A list of Plagaries ibid. Planets 330,331 Planets, or wandering stars, more then seven 262 Plants, whence probably, they receive their colours. 413 Whether all have seed 114 Plate, a river in America 389 Plato 184,268 His objection against the Pythagorean Metempsychosis 368

Pleiades, more then seven 262 Pleurisies 233 Pliny, his Character 33 Poets 39 Poisons 152 No poisons, but hath its Antidote in Nature 459 Poisonous Animals, why not found in some Countries 460 Poles Northern and Aouthern, what they be.381 Polytheism or muliplicity of Gods. 41 Pompey 16 Popes, why commonly they change their names at their creation 454 Pope Joan, a suspected storie 461 Story of Hildebrand, or Pope Gregory 7th partially reported ibid. Popular imperfections taxed 8,9,19 Popular error, from difficulties to conclude impossiblities 451 Porwiggles 173 Positions of the body 176 Pox. 255 Prarcolus 15 Predictions Augurial &c. whence they came. 47 Presages, from Spiders, Magots, deceitfull 114 Perga Dio, or the praying Locust of province.230 Priests, why they washed their feet commonly before Sacrifice. 324 Prester John, or the Emperour of Ethiopia 404 Procopius, his Arcana historia, an invective against Justinian 457 Progression of Animals. 135 Proportion betwixt the face and neck.449 Providence of Nature.194

Ptolomy, where he was born.388 Pythagoras, his allegoricall precepts morallized 14 His precepts concerning Fish. 211 Quailes 228 Quince 412 Quinsay, a City in China 390 Rabbins 7,168,184 Radishes 183 Rahab, whether a harlot in the worst sense. 301 Rainbow, how produced.425 The Lunary Rainbow 426 Rainbow, how proper for the signification it beareth . ibid Colours of the Rainbow 427 Rain water 198 Wheat 115 Raven, an ominous bird. 320 Ragmund Sebund, his Theologia naturalis commended.28 Reason 3,27 Red-sea, what, and why so called 395 Religion, not to be compelled. 46,56 Remora a fish 227 Revenge, how prodigiously acted by an Italian 467 Reward of vertue and vice 40 Ribs how many commonly in men and women 422 Ridiculous receipts in Physick.30 Rings 234 Rings, Bracelets, Jewels &c. how diversly worn 408 Gyges his Ring 464 Ring-finger 234

Rivers and estuaries, why subject to such violent flows 447 Rose of Jericho 112 Romes proper name unknown why 12 Under the Rose, &c. the reason of the Proverb. 322 [edit] T-Z Sabbaton Deuteroproton, Luke. 6 What Sabbath it was 349 Salamander.174,175 Salmasius commended. 273 Salomon. 7 Salt. 257 The falling of Salt. 221 Salt-peter, how made, its effects 97 Salts 397 Spirits of Salt. 54,413 Salt waters bearing more weight then fresh.451 Samaritans, their care to preserve the Pentateuch, or five books of Moses.337 Samaritan Chronology. Ibid. Sammonicus 30 Sap of trees, how it nourisheth 115 Satan, his practises 6,15,40,41,42,43,49,290,443 How he fell 51 Saturnius Egypticus and Cham, Gen. 10 the same person 377 Savours unpleasant in some men, whence possibly arising. 253 Scaliger 239 Scepticism censured 18 Schoolmen, a query among them concernning the ressurection of women 185 H. Scripture. 37,46. Translation of H. Scripture. 339

Scutcheons of the twelve Tribes. 302 Antiquity of bearing Scutcheons.304 Scythians. 335 Why commonly subject to the Sciatica or hip-gout.308 Seasons of the year, how made and distinguished.353 Necessary for the production of things.354 Sea, its ebbing and flowing.446 How possibly caused by the Moon. Ibid. How unequal in some seas. 447 Sebastian Cabor. 69 Seed, an Idea of the whole Animal contained in every part of it. 423 Sem, whether the eldest son of Noah. 428 Semiramis, her army against the Indians. 379 Senag, a river. 399 Sense from the brain. 190 Septuagint translation of the Bible 339 Its primitive authority and credit. Ibid Since impaired. Ibid. Seraglio, the daily provision therof. 456 Serapis. 202 Serpent tempting Eve. 289,421 Serpents bicipitous. 177 Servius Commentary upon Virgil commended. 263 Sferra Cavallo, its pretended properties. 112 Shekel, that of the Sanctuary. 440 Sibyls. 304 Side, right and left in man. 240 Sight. 152

Silly-how, what it is. 325 Sin of the fruit, not first sin.2 Sitting coss-legd 322 Smal-coal, how made, of what use in Gun-powder. 97 Smoak.322 Smoak of Sulphur. 410 Snakes. 226 Snayls. 191,199 Sneezing.251 Customs observed upon Sneezing. 252 Snow. 58 Spaniards, their Nation how ancient. 377,378 Speech, not by any natural instinct, but by imitation or instruction. 335 Spermatical parts. 160 Spider 220 Spigelius commended. 172 Spirits, those in Animals, what manner of substance they be. 248 Sponge. 93 Stars, their Ascent Heliacal, and Cosmical, what they be. 276 Their Longitude what it is. 278 Their Declination, what. Ibid. The seven Stars. 317 Fixed Stars. 417 Stater, Matth. 17. what piece of money it was 441 Statists. 12 Steel. 63,64 Stirrops, their use not ancient. 307 Stoicks. 42

Stomack 176 Stones fusible 55 Stone in the kidneys or blader, how bred. 90 Stones retaining light in darkness.103 Eagle Stone, of what vertue. Ibid. Stork. 218 Stories suspected Of Cocles, Sevola, of Curtius, Of Archimedes his sphere Of the Amazons Upon the taking of Babylon Of the Catadupae Of Democritus and Heraclitus &c. 463,464 Stories indiscreetly transmitted, what mischief they do to posterity. 468 Suetonius. 136 Sugar. 96 Sun, its site and motion, how admirably accomodated by God, to the necessities and state of the inferior world, 353,354,355. By what motion it makes the day, by what the year. Ibid Its Veneticall motion, what.ibid Its motion unequall, and how. 400 How seen sometimes after it is set. 416 Superfoetation what 185 Possible in women, unto a perfect birth. Ibid. Supinity taxed. 17 Swallows 328 Swans 216, 217 Swimming, the faculty not to be lost by disuse. 245 Siracusia, or the Galleon of King Hiero 464

Tainct, an insect, whether so dangerous to cattell as tis thought . 222 Taliacotius, his art 84, 160 Tamerlane how descended. 455 Whence said to be the son of a shepheard ibid. Tarantula, what. 227 Temperancy, of the modern Jews 255 Temple at Ephesus how long in building. 464 Tenariffa, an hill of the Canaries. 390 Tertullian. 165 Thargum. 2 Thomas Fazelli, his description of Sicilie commended. 377 Throat, the passages therof. 250 Thunder, how caused. 98 The thorne at Glassenbury. 112 Time. 346 Time, what it is. 166 Anciently how measured. 315 The three great distinctions of time since the creation. Adelon, Mythicon,Historicon, what they import. 369,370 Toads. 171,220 Torpedo. 223 Torrid Zone. 26 Tranparency of bodies, whence. 60 Triclinium, or the Table on which our B. Saviour instituted the Eucharist, reported to be at Rome. 297 Trinum Magicum. 36 Tropicks. 346,401 Truths in things, what 4

Tulips, never bearing a blew 398 Turnebus 71, 321 Turneps. 183 Tyger the Animall, nothing so swift as hath been though. 227 Tzertes,his Character 35 Variation of the compass, what it is . 68 The particular causes of the Variation. Ibid. 69,75 In some places none at all. 386 Ubiquity of God. 5 Venery 157 Verdigreese 412 Vespasian 50 Vegetables, their vertue impaired by the flood. 209 Vices epidemicall, or a general succession of them in all ages. 21 Vincentius Belluacensis, his Character. 35 Violl-string moved upon the touch of another. 466 Viper. 178, 306 Virgil, a Plagarie of whom. 23 Vision Beatifical 7 Vitriol 411, 412, 413 Umbrae at feasts, who they were. 294 Unguentum armarium 85 Unicorn 202,203 Unicorns-horn, that commonly usd in England, what 264 Universities 20 Vossius 301 Urinal, its forcing a nail through a plank. 466 Vultures, whether all females , as hath been reported. 319

Water, and watry humidity only freezeth. 54 Weight. 247 Weight of men 248 Whelps 219 White-powder 99 Wine, how spoiled by Thunder. 113 Whether good to be drunke once a moneth. 326 Witches 45 Wolf, a disease 256 Wolf the Animal. 155 Wolves, why said to live in England 452 Women, changed into men. 183,184 Wormes 153,221 Wood, petrifying, or turning into stone. 54 Writing, the more ancient way. 319 Xenocrates Platonicus 268 Xerxes his Army, how probably said to drink up rivers. 462 Year Solary 271 Year Lunary ibid. Year differently measured 271 How divided 346 Zenith, what. 68 Its certain distance from the Horizon. 355 Zeno his paradox. 18 Zodiack, the line of life. 351 Zone, the Torrid Zone whence conceived to be inhabitable 451, 452