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Edward Topsell (circa 1572 – 1625) was an
English cleric and
author best
remembered for his bestiary.
Topsell was born and
educated in Sevenoaks, Kent...
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devourer of men" was
already pointed out by
Edward Topsell in 1607. (for
further information on
Topsell's manticore, cf. infra. Gr****, "red like cinnabar...
- Winckelmann, and others. The word
Dionysian occurs as
early as 1608 in
Edward Topsell's zoological treatise The
History of Serpents. The
concept has
since been...
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Amphiptere by
Edward Topsell (1608)...
- have no tongue. — Curious
creatures in
zoology A
later writer,
Edward Topsell,
provided a
different explanation for the tears, saying, "There are not...
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making Lamia's
gender ambiguous. This was
later incorporated into
Edward Topsell's 17th-century
envisioning of the lamia. It is
somewhat uncertain if this...
- This is a
woodcut is of the
tragelaph from the book, The
History of Four-footed
Beasts and
Serpents by
Edward Topsell....
- ("Animal Book"), was
published in
Zurich in 1563, and in
England Edward Topsell translated and
condensed it as a
Historie of foure-footed
beastes (London:...
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coney (rabbit);
guinea pigs were
referred to as "pig coneys" in
Edward Topsell's 1607
treatise on quadrupeds. How the
animals came to be
called "pigs"...
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appearing in
English translation as The
Theatre of
Insects in
Edward Topsell's History of Four-Footed
Beasts and
Serpents (1658). In 1545,
after four...
