Pseudodoxia Epidemica found itself upon the bookshelves of many educated European readers for throughout the late 17th century and early 18th century it was translated, for many years it was not thought compatible with the French and Dutcheze, into the French, Dutch and German languages as well as Latin.

This was addressed in chapter III of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, for instance.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica was a valuable source of information which found itself upon the shelves of many homes in seventeenth century England.

A detailed edition of Pseudodoxia Epidemica in 2 volumes was published by Oxford University Press in 1986, edited and comprehensively annotated by Robin Robbins.

Unheard-of Curiosities was one of 1, 500 books in the Library of Sir Thomas Browne and one of the varied sources of his encyclopaedia entitled Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Enquiries into Common and Vulgar Errors translated into Dutch four or five years ago.

In 1646, Browne published the encyclopaedia, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenets, and commonly Presumed Truths, whose title refers to the prevalence of false beliefs and " vulgar errors.

* Dr Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica is published in London, introducing the words electricity, medical, pathology, hallucination and computer to the English language and casting doubt on the theory of spontaneous generation.

The word " locust " has, at times, been employed controversially in English translations of Ancient Greek and Latin natural histories, as well as of Hebrew and Greek Bibles ; such ambiguous renderings prompted the 17th-century polymath Thomas Browne to include in the Fifth Book of his Pseudodoxia Epidemica an essay entitled Of the Picture of a Grasshopper, it begins:

The word first appears in English in the mid-17th century ( used in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 ), where it is an adaptation of Late Latin rhabdomantia, from a presumed ( unrecorded ) ancient Greek * rhabdomanteia, from the ancient Greek ῥαβδος ( rhabdos ) a rod.

The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.

The second of Pseudodoxia Epidemicas seven books entitled Tenets concerning Mineral and Vegetable Bodies includes Browne's experiments with static electricity and magnetism — the word electricity being one of many neologisms including medical, pathology, hallucination, literary, and computer, which Browne's vigorous inventiveness coined into the vocabulary of the early scientific revolution.

This association gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity ", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.

Bacon's ideas were influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 1672 ) frequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries.

Sir Thomas Browne, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, ch.

" As a word it originates from Thomas Browne in his book Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

Such beliefs were examined wittily and at length in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

* 1646 — Sir Thomas Browne first uses the word electricity is in his work Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

His encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 76 ) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ; its preface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne refuting the common errors and superstitions of his age.

Subjects covered in Pseudodoxia are arranged in the time-honoured Renaissance scale of creation, the learned doctor assaying to dispel errors and fallacies concerning the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms before moving to errors pictorial, to those of man, geography, astronomy and finally of the cosmos.

The popularity of Pseudodoxia in its day is confirmed by the fact that it went through no fewer than six editions ; the first edition appearing upon the eve of the English Civil War, during the reign of Charles I in 1646.

It also includes many of the sources of his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica which went through no less than six editions ( 1646 to 1672 ); and established Browne's name as one of the leading intellects of 17th century Europe.

Like Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Musaeum Clausum is a catalogue of doubts and queries, only this time, in a style that anticipates Jorge Luis Borges, a 20th century Argentinian short-story writer who once declared: " To write vast books is a laborious nonsense, much better is to offer a summary as if those books actually existed.

Thomas Browne affirmed the stone's application to obstetrics in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1672 ), but doubted the story about eagles.

He was not prosecuted, however, and his case was subsequently reopened, in the light of Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 ( 1955 ).

Previously purified chlorine was subsequently admitted and the exchange was allowed to take place.

The serum was measured volumetrically and subsequently dialyzed in the cold for at least 24 hr against three to four changes, approximately 750 ml each, of `` starting buffer ''.

After all, Alger Hiss, subsequently convicted of perjury in denying that he gave secret State Department documents to Soviet agents, was at Yalta.

It was under the tutelage of the Guru that Bhai Kanhaiya subsequently founded a volunteer corps for altruism.

ASCII was subsequently updated as USASI X3. 4-1967, then USASI X3. 4-1968, ANSI X3. 4-1977, and finally, ANSI X3. 4-1986 ( the first two are occasionally retronamed ANSI X3. 4-1967, and ANSI X3. 4-1968 ).

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

In 1806, the French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound in asparagus that was subsequently named asparagine, the first amino acid to be discovered.

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

Alexander's mother also opposed the marriage and was subsequently banished from the kingdom.

Alfonso was subsequently elected king on 14 September 791.

Preferring to die rather than give up his chastity, he threw himself into the river Amazonius, which was subsequently renamed Tanais.

Hipparchus, brother of the tyrant Hippias, was killed by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who were subsequently honored by the Athenians for their alleged restoration of Athenian freedom.

Ampicillin was the first of a number of so-called broad spectrum penicillins subsequently introduced by Beecham.

He was subsequently elected Lord Rector of University of St. Andrews.

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

He fell to the ground " (), the light was " brighter than the sun " () and he was subsequently blinded for three days ().

The study was subsequently heavily criticised for its non-random sample and its use of statistics and also its lack of consistency with astrology.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.