WHALES, ELEPHANTS, AND THE ‘SOUTHERN CONTINENT NOT YET DISCOVERED’ BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages, and Religions through the cheife Parts of the World …
First edition. Brerewood, professor of astronomy at Gresham College, was a scholar in many fields who published nothing in his own lifetime (he died in 1613). Enquiries, seen through the press by a nephew, explores the spread of ancient, eastern, and modern languages, discusses the tongues in which the liturgy is celebrated, and reviews the parts of the world where Christians live and where ‘idolaters’. Along the way there are digressions on the height of mountains, the depth of the sea, and the dimensions of whales and elephants.
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