文档介绍：Natural
History
Lore
and
Legend
Being
some
few
examples
of
quaint
and
by-gone
beliefs
gathered
in
from
divers
authorities,
ancient
and
mediaeval,
of
varying
degrees
of
reliability
by
F.
Edward
Hulme
.,
.
Author
of
“Wayside
Sketches,”
“Suggestions
in
Floral
Design,”
“Familiar
Wild
Flowers,”
and
divers
other
books
that
need
not
here
be
set
forth
“ As some delighte moste to beholde
Eche newe devyse and guyse,
So some in workes of fathers olde
Their studies exercise.”
“Historicall
Expostulation”
of
John
Halle,
Chyrurgeon,
.
1565
Arment
Biological
Press
This
Electronic
Publication
is
a
reprint
of
F.
Edward
Hulme’s
Natural
History
Lore
and
Legend.
This
book
was
originally
published
in
1895
by
Bernard
Quaritch,
15
adilly,
London.
The
current
publisher
has
attempted
to
retain
all
pertinent
text
and
figures,
but
format
changes
were
necessary.
Because
pagination
has
changed,
some
text
references
will
not
necessarily
refer
to
specific
pages
in
this
electronic
document
and
footnotes
have
been
moved
to
the
end
of
the
text.
This
edition
does
not
include
an
index.
This
electronic
publication
is
©2000
by
Arment
Biological
Press.
The
original
text
is
in
the
public
domain,
however
all
changes,
formatting
and
presentation
of
thispublication
are
copyrighted
by
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current
publisher.
ISBN
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oks/
NATURAL
HISTORY
LORE
AND
LEGEND
Chapter
I.
Mediaeval
naturalists
honest
searchers
after
truth
—
Sir
Emerson
Tennant
thereupon
—
Recent
discoveries
confirm
many
statements
once
contested
—
“Travellers’
tales”
—
Mediaeval
natural
history
largely
based
upon
ancient
—
Difference
of
aim
between
modern
and
ancient
and
mediaeval
nature-study
—
The
moral
treatment
—
Illustrations
from
the
“Speculum
Mundi”
—
Falsification
of
natural
facts
justified
by
the
ecclesiastics
—
Ready
credulity
a
mediaeval
characteristic<