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Broschiert. Zustand: Sehr gut. (electonic reprint). (123) S. / A 4. Gebraucht, aber sehr gut erhalten. - This Electronic Publication is a reprint of Edmund Goldsmid's Un-Natural History, or Myths of Ancient Science. This book was originally privately published in 1886 in Edinburgh. The current publisher has attempted to retain all pertinent text and figures, but format changes were necessary. Because pagination has changed, some text references will not necessarily refer to specific pages in this electronic document. // IT HAS seemed to me that the following tracts, on myths so strange, yet so widely credited in ancient times, could not fail to prove interesting, especially as the tracts themselves, written in the 17th century by German savants, and printed (very badly, by the way) at Wittemberg, Frankfort-on-Oder, &c, are quite unknown, not only in this country, but even in the land of their production. Of course, some few may have heard of Kirchmayer, but how many know even the names of Griibe or Schoochius? The myths treated of in the following treatises are: the Basilisk, Unicorn, Phoenix, Behemoth, Dragon, Giant Spider, Tarantula, Chameleons, Satyrs, Tailed Men, and the Shining Lilies of Palestine. George Caspard Kirchmayer, the author of the first six tracts, was born at Uffeinheim, in Franconia, in 1635. He became Professor at Wittemberg, and was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Vienna. His principal works are: (1) Commentaries on Cornelius Nepos, Tacitus, and other classical authors; (2) Orations and various poems, of little value; (3) De Corallo, Balsamo et Saccharo (1661, 4to); (4) De Tribulis (1692, 4to); (5) Pathologia Vetus et Nova; (6) Philosophia Metallica; (7) Institutiones Metallica; (8) The six Treatises here translated and printed, under the collective title of Hexas disputationum Zoologicaram, at Wittemberg, in 1661. This extremely rare volume, purchased by me at the Maidment sale, is a small 8vo. of some 180 pages. It is written in Latin, with numerous quotations in Greek, Hebrew, and Low German. Kirchmayer died in 1700. Hermann Griibe was born at Liibeck, in 1633. He studied at Leyden, and became Professor of Medicine at Frankfort. He is said to have published several medical works, none of which are now ever read. His treatise, "De Ictu Tarantulae," here translated, is, I believe, quite unknown to Bibliographers. It is a small 8vo tract of some 90 pages, published at Frankfort in 1679, and is bound up with my copy of Kirchmayer. Martin Schoochius was born at Utrecht in 1614. After studying at that University he became successively Professor of Languages, of Eloquence and History, of Physic, of Logic, and of Practical Philosophy at Utrecht, Deventer, Groningen, and lastly at Frankfort-on-Oder, where he died in 1669. He was a man of powerful energy and extensive knowledge, and took a delight in out-of-the-way researches; but by dint of trying to show erudition, he often lost sight of his subject which was swallowed up in long disgressions. He was, it appears, extremely satirical, and certainly managed to touch Vossius to the quick, for the latter calls him Impudentissima Bestia (In Append. Guidiana, p. 329). He wrote a prodigious amount of criticism, philosophy, history, general literature etc. Those works which are either known from the existence of copies in various libraries, or from allusions in the writings of others are: (1) Exercitationes Variae, 1663, 4to, reprinted in 1688 under the title of Martini Themidis Exercitationes; (2) A treatise on Butter; (3) On the aversion of some people for cheese; (4) On the egg and the chicken; (5) On inundations; (6) De Harengis, seu Halecibus, 8vo, 1667; (7) De Signaturis Foetus; (8) De Ciconiis; (9) De Scepticismo; (10) On sneezing; (11) De Cerevisia, 12mo, 1648; (12) De Turffis; (13) De Statu Reipublicae Foederati Belgii; (14) De Imperio Maritimo; (15) De Natura Soni; (16) De Nihilo; (17) De Lingua Helenistica; (18) An attack on Descartes entitled Admiranda Methodus Novae philosophiae and numerous r.…