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January 2026

12 books of natural history in 17th century

https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/05/onomasticon-zoicon-1668/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/17/bernardus-connor-and-the-science-behind-gospel-miracles/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/16/the-history-of-the-royal-society-of-london-1667/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/11/16/galileos-starry-messenger-and-keplers-dioptrice-two-of-the-most-important-books-in-early-observational-astronomy/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/11/edward-brownes-1677-travels-through-germany-natural-history-mines-baths/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/10/14/philosophia-mentis-et-sensuum-1698-jesuit-aristotelianism-and-empirical-philosophy/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/05/the-works-of-the-learned-sr-thomas-brown-1686/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/19/of-the-advancement-and-proficience-of-learning-1640/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/18/strimesiuss-somatologia-1697/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/11/natural-history-the-devils-arse-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/09/24/a-restitution-of-decayed-intelligence-4/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/19/experiments-on-diverse-natural-things-francesco-redi-1685/ JAMESGRAY2@ME.COM

Thomas Browne on the “Blackness of Negroes” and the Fate of Nations: Reading The Works Of the Learned Sr Thomas Brown 1686

The Works Of the Learned Sr Thomas Brown 1686 Among the many curiosities in the 1686 folio of Sir Thomas Browne’s Works are two passages rarely considered together: a “Prophecy concerning the future state of several Nations,” and a thirteen-page enquiry into... Continue Reading →

Onomasticon zoicon, 1668.

952J Charleton, Walter 619-1707.  Onomasticon zoicon, plerorumque animalium differentias & nomina propria pluribus linguis exponens. Cui accedunt mantissa anatomica; et quædam de variis fossilium generibus. Autore Gualtero Charletono, M.D. Caroli II. Magnæ Britanniæ Regis, medico ordinario, & Collegii Medicorum Londinensium Socio... Continue Reading →

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