I rate Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica

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Thomas Browne*'s Pseudodoxia Epidemica (or: ENQUIRIES Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths).
*Knight, Md

some musings from his Of the Glowweworme:
Now whether the light of animals, which do not occasionally shine from contingent causes, be of Kin unto the light of Heaven; whether the invisible flame of life, received in a convenient matter, may not become visible, and the diffused ætherial light make little Stars by conglobation in idoneous parts of the compositum; whether also it may not have some original in the seed and spirit analogous unto the Element of Stars, whereof some glympse is observable in the little refulgent humor, at the first attempts of formation: Philosophy may yet enquire.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 13 February 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

you philosophers (for example Minty) probably already know it, but I'm an ignoramus who stumbled upon it whilst looking for information on supposed live frogs discovered entombed inside rocks!. Plus an ummm pterodactyl in 1856.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 13 February 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't figure out if he's saying you should get drunk more than once a month or less than or not at all, in Of being drunk once a month, but I see he thinks Adam and Eve should not be depicted with navels, God should not be depicted as an old man, and that bees make a buzzing sound even when they have no head or wings (eww).

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 13 February 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah so do I

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 15 February 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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