The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3Browne, Thomas, Sir
Religion
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3
Browne, Thomas, Sir
Christianity; Ethics; Religion and medicine
8. A Fragment of _Pythæas_ that ancient Traveller of _Marseille_; which
we suspect not to be spurious, because, in the description of the
Northern Countries, we find that passage of _Pythæas_ mentioned by
_Strabo_, that all the Air beyond _Thule_ is thick, condensed and
gellied, looking just like Sea Lungs.
9. A _Sub Marine_ Herbal, describing the several Vegetables found on the
Rocks, Hills, Valleys, Meadows at the bottom of the Sea, with many sorts
of _Alga_, _Fucus_, _Quercus_, _Polygonum_, _Gramens_ and others not yet
described.
10. Some Manuscripts and Rarities brought from the Libraries of
_Æthiopia_, by _Zaga Zaba_, and afterward transported to _Rome_, and
scattered by the Souldiers of the Duke of _Bourbon_, when they
barbarously sacked that City.
11. Some Pieces of _Julius Scaliger_, which he complains to have been
stoln from him, sold to the Bishop of _Mende_ in _Languedock_, and
afterward taken away and sold in the Civil Wars under the Duke of
_Rohan_.
12. A Comment of _Dioscorides_ upon _Hyppocrates_, procured from
_Constantinople_ by _Amatus Lusitanus_, and left in the hands of a Jew
of _Ragusa_.
13. _Marcus Tullius Cicero_ his Geography; as also a part of that
magnified Piece of his _De Republica_, very little answering the great
expectation of it, and short of Pieces under the same name by _Bodinus_
and _Tholosanus_.
14. King _Mithridates_ his _Oneirocritica_.
Aristotle de _Precationibus_.
Democritus _de his quæ fiunt apud Orcum, et Oceani circumnavigatio_.
Epicurus _de Pietate_.
A Tragedy of _Thyestes_, and another of _Medea_, writ by _Diogenes_ the
Cynick.
King _Alfred_ upon _Aristotle de Plantis_.
_Seneca's_ Epistles to S. _Paul_.
King _Solomon de Umbris Idæarum_, which _Chicus Asculænus_, in his
Comment upon _Johannes de Sacrobosco_, would make us believe he saw in
the Library of the Duke of _Bavaria_.
15. Artemidori _Oneirocritici Geographia_.
Pythagoras _de Mari Rubro_.
The Works of _Confutius_ the famous Philosopher of _China_, translated
into Spanish.
16. _Josephus_ in Hebrew, written by himself.
17. The Commentaries of _Sylla_ the Dictatour.
18. A Commentary of _Galen_ upon the Plague of _Athens_ described by
_Thucydides_.
19. _Duo Cæsaris Anti-Catones_, or the two notable Books writ by _Julius
Cæsar_ against _Cato_; mentioned by _Livy_, _Salustius_ and _Juvenal_;
which the Cardinal of _Liege_ told _Ludovicus Vives_ were in an old
Library of that City.
_Mazhapha Einok_, or, the Prophecy of _Enoch_, which _Ægidius
Lochiensis_, a learned Eastern Traveller, told _Peireschius_ that he had
found in an old Library at _Alexandria_ containing eight thousand
Volumes.
20. A Collection of Hebrew Epistles, which passed between the two
learned Women of our age _Maria Molinea_ of _Sedan_, and _Maria
Schurman_ of _Utrecht_.
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