Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths

By Sir Thomas Browne,

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Donā€™t be scared off by this 1646 book. Itā€™s essential for anyone who follows mythical beasts through time. One of the best-known parts of Browneā€™s influential book is Book III: ā€œOf divers popular and received Tenets concerning Animals, which examined, prove either false or dubious.ā€ By discrediting the classical and medieval authorities that perpetuated them, he considers the griffin, basilisk, unicorn, amphisbaena, and phoenix to be ā€œfabulous,ā€ thus separating them from the actual animal kingdom after centuries of general belief.

The now obscure Alexander Ross, ā€œChampion of the Ancients,ā€ refuted Browneā€™s book virtually point for point in his 1652 Arcanaā€¦

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