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Shuvadip Das posted an Question
January 24, 2020 • 17:38 pm
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What is the main theme of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica', or 'Vulgar Errors' (1646) ?
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Dear Shuvadip,
Greetings!!
Complete Title: Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquiries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths or Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors.
Published: 1646 revised and augmented 1650, 1658, and 1672.
Theme: Criticism of Superstitious Beliefs and Common Errors.
Description: In the Renaissance based society, the work is divided in 7 books as with the learned doctor essaying on the nature of error itself (Book 1), continuing with fallacies in the mineral vegetable (Book 2), and animal (Book 3) kingdoms onto errors concerning Man (Book 4), Art (Book 5), Geography and History (Book 6), and finally Astronomy and the Cosmos (Book 7).
NOTE: It comprises one general book, treating of the sources and propagation of error—original sin, popular gullibility, logical fallacy, learned credulity and laziness, reverence for antiquity and authority, influential authors, and Satan—and six particular books, three on natural history—mineralogy, botany, zoology, physiology—and three on civil, ecclesiastical, and literary history— iconography, magic and folklore, chronology, historical geography, and biblical, classical, and medieval history.
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