Un-natural History: Or Myths of Ancient Science; Being a Collection of Curious Tracts on the Basilisk, Unicorn, Phœnix, Behemoth Or Leviathan, Dragon, Giant Spider, Tarantula, Chameleons, Satyrs, Homines Caudati, &c. Now First Tr. from the Latin, and Ed., with Notes and IllustrationsEdmund Goldsmid Priv. print., 1886 - Animals |
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Ælian ANCIENT SCIENCE animal creation Arabia Arachne Aranea authority basilisk bear beast Behemoth bird body bones born called Cardanus Chameleon chap chapter cock colour creature cubits cure deadly Diodorus Siculus Dioscoris Dragon EDMUND GOLDSMID Elephant Exerc extremely eyes fact feet fish flying folio Franzius GEORGE CASPARD KIRCHMAYER Giant Spider give given Greek head Hebrew Hence Herodotus Hist Homines Caudati hunters India inhabitant Julius Cæsar kind King Lactantius Latins learned Leviathan lion lives Luca cows means Monoceros nature one-horned Oppian Ovid palm passage Philostratus Phoenix Pliny poison quadrupeds quoted reason remarks reptile rhinoceros Rome Satyrs says Scaliger seen serpent Solinus speak statement story Suidas tail Tarantula tells term thing Thomas Bartholinus thou tion Tracts trees tribe trunk truth Tulpius tusks Ulysses Aldrovandus Un-Natural History unicorn unicorn's horn Vertomannus viii Whale whole wonderful words worm writers young unicorn