The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... Pliny the Elder was more credulous and provided posterity with a great variety of strange lore about animals , little of which was up to the scientific standard set by the Greeks . However it was from Pliny , rather than from Aristotle ...
... Pliny the Elder was more credulous and provided posterity with a great variety of strange lore about animals , little of which was up to the scientific standard set by the Greeks . However it was from Pliny , rather than from Aristotle ...
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... Pliny the Elder , who died on the slopes of Vesuvius in 79 AD during an eruption of the volcano , also added to the legend . Like Herodotus , Pliny had doubts about the bird , but this did not prevent him recording the following details ...
... Pliny the Elder , who died on the slopes of Vesuvius in 79 AD during an eruption of the volcano , also added to the legend . Like Herodotus , Pliny had doubts about the bird , but this did not prevent him recording the following details ...
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... Pliny . He exaggerated the story , and it was from him that it passed to other later writers and so into popular legend . He writes ( in the charming words of Philemon Holland ) : He is of so cold a complexion , that if he do but touch ...
... Pliny . He exaggerated the story , and it was from him that it passed to other later writers and so into popular legend . He writes ( in the charming words of Philemon Holland ) : He is of so cold a complexion , that if he do but touch ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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