purn ment of w t of my debts Loquies and with shee is fully acquainted and at my w ния will of doubt m -fiance's Browne my Enivyment for and before yr Ento Erirubnizes and wwer in my estute wife dame Dorothic ith w my Last учит will and testament which fru hand and soake. witnesse Bing: Bickordike Anthony Mingay Thomas Browne THE FIRST BOOK; containing the general part the common infirmity of human nature Chap. 2. A further illustration of the same Chap. 3. Of the second cause of common errors; the erroneous disposition of the people. 193 to 201 Chap. 4. Of the more immediate causes of common errors, both in the wiser and com- mon sort; and first, of misapprehension and Chap. 5. Of other more immediate causes of error: viz. credulity and supinity Chap. 6. Of another more immediate cause of vi Chap. 7. Of another of the more immediate. Chap. 8. Of authors who have most promoted PAGE 225 to 232 232 to 243 Chap. 9. Of others indirectly effecting the same 244 to 247 258 to 266 267 to 384 false opinions, the endeavours of Satan 247 to 258 Chap. 11. A further illustration of the same THE SECOND BOOK; beginning the particular part. Of popular and received tenets concerning mineral and vegetable bodies. Chap. 1. That crystal is nothing else but ice strongly congealed Chap. 2. Concerning the loadstone; of things particularly spoken thereof, evidently or probably true Chap. 3. Concerning the loadstone; a rejec tion of sundry common opinions and relations 267 to 284 284 to 303 thereof; natural, medical, historical, magical 303 to 325 Chap. 4. Of bodies electrical Chap. 5. Compendiously of sundry other com 325 to 333 mon tenets concerning minerals and terreous bodies, which, examined, prove either false or dubious. That a diamond is softened or broken by the blood of a goat; that glass is poison, and that it is malleable; of the cordial quality of gold; that a pot full of ashes will contain as much water as it would without them; of white powder that kills without report; that coral is soft under water, but hardeneth in the air; that porcelain lies under the earth an hundred years in preparation; that a carbuncle gives a light in the dark; of the eagle stone; of fairy, stones; with some others 334 to 358 Chap. 6. Of sundry tenets concerning vegetables or plants, which, examined, prove either false or dubious. Of mandrakes; that cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, are but the |