admirandis

Updated: May 26, 2025

Wherefore, the better to detect the mistake of Oviedo, I shall first state what Aristotle has said on this subject, as related by F. Theophilus de Ferrariis, among the problems of Aristotle which he collected in a book entitled De Admirandis in Natura auditis, in the following strain: "Beyond the pillars of Hercules, it is reported that certain Carthaginian merchants discovered an island in the Atlantic, which had never before been inhabited except by beasts.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

40 De multis regionibus Imperio Tartariae subiectis. 41 De magnificentia Imperatoris Indiae. 42 De frequentia Palatij, et comitatu Imperatoris praesbiteri Ioannis. 43 De quisbusdam miris per Regiones Imperij Indiae. 44 De loco et dispositione Vallis infaustae. 45 De quibusdam alijs admirandis, per Indorum insulas. 46 De periculis et tormentis in valle infausta.

Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 : Asia, Part I

Vanini, half a century later, that is at the commencement of the seventeenth, a restless, vain, and insolent man, after a life full of sudden changes of fortune, and yet distinguished, was burnt alive at Toulouse for certain passages in his De admirandis ... arcanis, and for having said that he would not express his opinion on the immortality of the soul until he was old, a Jew, and a German.

Émile Faguet - Initiation into Philosophy