# Natural history, lore and legend

Author: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909

Genre: Science -- History

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77830

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Natural+history%2C+lore+and+legend+Hulme&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mediæval naturalists honest searchers after truth—Sir Emerson Tennant thereupon—Recent discoveries confirm many statements once contested—“Travellers’ tales”—Mediæval natural history largely based upon ancient—Difference of aim between modern and ancient and mediæval nature-study—The moral treatment—Illustrations from the “Speculum Mundi”—Falsification of natural facts justified by the ecclesiastics—Ready credulity a mediæval characteristic—Two examples thereof—The love of the marvellous—Astrological influences—The mental equipment of a mediæval surgeon—Quaint book titles—The unchanging East—Suttee, Juggernaut, &c. in the pages of mediæval writers—The “Mirabilia descripta” of Bishop Jorda...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-lore-and-legend-77830/chapters/2/index.md)