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... phoenix . All three writers express some doubts about the story , and yet it seems fairly certain that in 36 AD some strange bird appeared in Egypt which caused great surprise and comment . - Our modern idea of the phoenix - that it ...
... phoenix . All three writers express some doubts about the story , and yet it seems fairly certain that in 36 AD some strange bird appeared in Egypt which caused great surprise and comment . - Our modern idea of the phoenix - that it ...
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... phoenix had become a literary puzzle rather than a fact of avian biology . The fathers of the Church , among them St Cyril , St Ambrose , Tertullian , Origines Adamantius , connect the phoenix with the Resurrection , if ' the account be ...
... phoenix had become a literary puzzle rather than a fact of avian biology . The fathers of the Church , among them St Cyril , St Ambrose , Tertullian , Origines Adamantius , connect the phoenix with the Resurrection , if ' the account be ...
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... phoenix failed such tests . And though the phoenix lingered on as a sign over chemists ' shops through its association with alchemy , it was of more interest to a Paracelsus than a Thomas Pennant . The focus now changed from whether the ...
... phoenix failed such tests . And though the phoenix lingered on as a sign over chemists ' shops through its association with alchemy , it was of more interest to a Paracelsus than a Thomas Pennant . The focus now changed from whether the ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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