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Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many received Tenets, and commonly presumed truths

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Also known as: “Browne’s Vulgar Errors”

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In Sir Thomas Browne
…his second and larger work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many received Tenets, and commonly presumed truths (1646), often known as Browne’s Vulgar Errors. In it he tried to correct many popular beliefs and superstitions. In 1658 he published his third book, two treatises on antiquarian subjects, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall,…
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