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Updated: June 25, 2025
The age was pedantic, and appealed too much to the authority of antiquity. Hence we have such monuments of perverse and curious erudition as Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621; and Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Inquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, 1646.
Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Bk. IV, Chap. As late as 1699, a thesis was discussed at the Paris Faculty, "Whether comets were harbingers of disease," and in 1707 the Faculty negatived the question propounded in a thesis, "Whether the moon had any sway on the human body."
He smiled to see her and took off his great slouch hat. "My beloved Virgilio was overjoyed that I should have found the famous book the veritable Italian edition of Sir Thomas Browne his 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica. A red-letter day for us both! But but " He looked at Jenny's frightened eyes and felt her hand upon his sleeve. "Why, what is wrong? You are alarmed. No ill news of Giuseppe?"
'He forced Latinisms into his line, Like raw undrilled recruits, that have yet done immense service in his conflicts with the enemy. This pedantry, so inimitable, is unequaled even by the most weighty pages of the 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' of Sir Thomas Browne. That it should prove obnoxious to some critics only testifies to its perfection and their own incapacity for enjoyment.
I suppose it isn't open to such an explanation? 'Malkin never was intoxicated, save with his own vivacity. They discussed the singular being with good-natured mirth, then turned by degrees to other topics. 'I have just come across a passage that will delight you, said Earwaker, taking up a book. 'Perhaps you know it. He read from Sir Thomas Brown's Pscudodoxia Epidemica.
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