The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 78
htp the battaile of Sz\m\\s.Lampadtas is like to burning lojchtsi^ndiHtpfem to horfe maines^rndft /^^^/w/^^^^fwiftin motion,and turning round.Therc isalfo a white Comet with filver haircs, fo bright anii: ^-^^*^-fhining,that hardly a man can endure to looke upon it, and in mans fhape it fheweth the… … Tlie fecond Booke of . ged into a fpeatcpamely in the hundred and eight Olympiasjand the 398 yeere from the foun- Gdation of Rome. Noted it hath ben, that the fhortefltimeof their appearance is a fevea-night,and the longett cightie daies.Some of them move hke the wandering planets: others are…
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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