The history of four-footed beasts and serpents.

Book Name-"The history of four-footed beasts and serpents." 

Author Name- Edward Topsell:  Conrad Gessner: Thomas Moffett:  John Rowland M.D


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Pages-1102

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Book Type-English

Publication date-1658 

 My very Noble LORD,
 
 Our Lordship bell knows that Honour attends upon Virtue, as the SUA shadondoth upon the substance; there is such a magnetick force 2 in Goodness, that it draws the hearts of men after it. The world
obferves that your Honour is a great Lover of the works of Learned Writers, which is an infallible argument of an excellent mind residing in You. Wherefore I bere humbly offer unto Your Noble Patronage the moji Famous and Incomparable History of CONRADUS G.ESNE R, a great Philosopher and Phyfitian, who by hu vast expences, and indefatigable pains, Collected and Digested into two volums, what ever he found scattered here and there in almost infinite Authors, concerning Fourfooted-Beasts and Serpents, adding also what he could posibly attain to by his own experience, and correspondence held with other famous Scholars every where. After him Mr. Edward Topsel a Learned Divine, Reviled and Augmented the fame History; as it is not altogether fo difficult to add something to what is first begun, and to build upon such a foundation which was before fo artificially laid. He hath deferved well of our English Nation in so doing; and the more, that he doth noith so much modesty attribute the praise of the whole work to the Mafter-workman to whom it was chiefly due. The same Gesner, after Mr. Edward Wotton had begun, undertook to compose the History of Infeéts; which as it is a business of more curiosity and difficulty to write exactly of: lo all things considered, they Jerve as much to set forth the Wisdom and Power of God as the greatest Creatures be hath made, and are as beneficial to Mankind, not only for dainty Food, but for the many Physical uses that arise from tbem. John Baptist fed spon Locusts and
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