CHAPTER XXVI.

HISTORY OF SOME OTHER PROVINCES OF LITERATURE FROM 1600 TO 1650.

Aldrovandus 662

Clusius 662

Rio and Marcgraf 662

Jonston 662

Fabricius on the Language of Brutes 663

Botany--Columna 664

John and Gaspar Bauhin 664

Parkinson 664

Valves of the Veins discovered 665

Theory of the Blood’s Circulation 665

Sometimes ascribed to Servetus 665

To Columbus 666

And to Cæsalpin 666

Generally unknown before Harvey 667

His Discovery 667

Unjustly doubted to be Original 667

Harvey’s Treatise on Generation 668

Lacteals discovered by Asellius 668

Optical Discoveries of Scheiner 669

Medicine--Van Helmont 669

Diffusion of Hebrew 669

Language not studied in the best method 669

The Buxtorfs 670

Vowel Points rejected by Cappel 670

Hebrew Scholars 671

Chaldee and Syriac 671

Arabic 671

Erpenius 671

Golius 671

Other Eastern Languages 672

Purchas’s Pilgrim 672

Olearius and Pietro della Valle 672

Lexicon of Ferrari 672

Maps of Blaew 672

Davila and Bentivoglio 673

Mendoza’s Wars of Granada 673

Mezeray 673

English Historians 673

English Histories 673

Universities 673

Bodleian Library founded 674

Casaubon’s Account of Oxford 674

Catalogue of Bodleian Library 674

Continental Libraries 675

Italian Academies 675

The Lincei 675

Prejudice for Antiquity diminished 676

Browne’s Vulgar Errors 677

Life and Character of Peiresc 677

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