Natural history, lore and legend (Registro nro. 118550)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | QL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hulme, F. Edward |
| Fuller form of name | (Frederick Edward), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1841-1909 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Natural history, lore and legend |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-02-01 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Natural history, lore and legend" by F. Edward Hulme is a historical survey written in the late 19th century. It explores how ancient and medieval writers understood animals and nature—balancing medical uses, moral symbolism, and travellers’ reports—alongside legends of real and mythical creatures. Expect respectful reassessment of “travellers’ tales,” bestiaries, and heraldic lore, with frequent citations from Pliny, Aristotle, Maundevile, and other authorities.<br/><br/>The opening of this survey argues that medieval naturalists were honest seekers after truth, even if credulous, and notes how later discoveries have vindicated some disputed reports. Hulme contrasts modern, descriptive zoology with earlier aims—healing the body and saving the soul—illustrated by moral readings of animals from works like the Speculum Mundi (e.g., the crafty polypus, the mole that “opens its eyes” at death). He samples astrological medicine and bizarre recipes (protective staves, “Venice treacle”), then shows the “unchanging East” through Jordanus (Towers of Silence, suttee) and Maundevile (Juggernaut processions, artificial incubation, carrier pigeons, bound feet), and notes Burton’s early account of coca. A substantial survey of Pliny’s Natural History outlines its vast scope, sources, and influence, with Aristotle and other classical writers alongside the medieval reliance on travel books, medical handbooks, bestiaries, armories, and poets. Hulme delights in old cosmographies and maps crammed with monsters (Munster), weighs Marco Polo’s comparative sobriety against more fanciful geographers, and glances at Raleigh, Hakluyt, Purchas, Struys, and Acosta. He also samples remedies and student life from Cogan and Potter, and the ecclesiastical bestiaries of Guillaume and Philip de Thaun with their emblematic morals, plus heraldic manuals by Guillim and others. At the start of the second chapter, he turns to pygmies—classical testimonies, crane wars, Browne’s skepticism, Maundevile’s and Jordanus’s reports, Marco Polo’s counterfeit “pygmies”—and notes modern confirmations of dwarf peoples before introducing Aldrovandus’s extravagant “monsters.” (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Science -- History |
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| Uncontrolled term | Zoology -- History |
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| Uncontrolled term | Animals, Mythical |
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| Uncontrolled term | Monsters |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/naturalhistorylo00hulmuoft">https://archive.org/details/naturalhistorylo00hulmuoft</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77830">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77830</a> |
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