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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...
- bibliophiles,
Jaggard is
known as the
printer and
publisher of
Edward Topsell's The
History of Four-Footed
Beasts (1607) and The
History of
Serpents (1608)...
- have no tongue. — Curious
creatures in
zoology A
later writer,
Edward Topsell,
provided a
different explanation for the tears, saying, "There are not...
- 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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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...
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Amphiptere by
Edward Topsell (1608)...
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allegory as
found in the 12th-century
works of Hugh of St
Victor and
Edward Topsell's Historie of Foure-footed
Beastes (London, 1607, 1653) and its replacement...
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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...
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Working with Familiars.
Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 82. ISBN 9781567181685.
Topsell,
History of Foure-footed Beasts, pg 493 (1608) -
quoted in Folk-Etymology...
