Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... writer on natural history is Aristotle ( fourth century B.C. ) , who is sometimes referred to as " the founder of ... writers on natural history did little more than copy , translate , or comment upon the works of Aristotle . " The ...
... writer on natural history is Aristotle ( fourth century B.C. ) , who is sometimes referred to as " the founder of ... writers on natural history did little more than copy , translate , or comment upon the works of Aristotle . " The ...
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... writers in the Middle Ages and even in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Three works much read and apparently of considerable influence upon medieval writers are the Physiologus , a symbolic bestiary ( probably stemming from a ...
... writers in the Middle Ages and even in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Three works much read and apparently of considerable influence upon medieval writers are the Physiologus , a symbolic bestiary ( probably stemming from a ...
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... writers on natural history , excepting Aris- totle , down to the sixteenth century drew their material almost wholly from earlier writings or popular tradition ; and even Aristotle cites Aesop as one of his authorities . Pliny relied on ...
... writers on natural history , excepting Aris- totle , down to the sixteenth century drew their material almost wholly from earlier writings or popular tradition ; and even Aristotle cites Aesop as one of his authorities . Pliny relied on ...
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