2007
DOI: 10.1163/157338207x166371
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"The Doctor Quarrels with Some Pictures": Exegesis and Animals in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica

Abstract: This essay explores Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646), with its lengthy book on 'errors' in animal lore. In the limited critical literature on Browne's natural history, this author is generally seen as stumbling towards a zoological idiom and clearing away the emblematic 'clutter' of earlier writers on natural history--Gesner, Aldrovandi, Topsell or Franzius. This essay proposes that Browne is working with a more complex set of co-ordinates in his thought, beyond his experimental inclinations and hi… Show more

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