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THIS beautiful addition to the “King's Classics,” of which Prof. Gollancz is the general editor, is likely to prove of interest to students of science. Written by an English Franciscan, probably before 1260, to explain the allusions to natural objects met with in the Scriptures and elsewhere, it is really an account of the properties of things in general so far as they were understood by an educated writer of the Middle Ages. After studying the quaint and pleasant accounts of mediæval science, medicine, geography, and natural history which the book contains, the student will begin to realise that during the Middle Ages science was not stagnant, but, by gradual development, was making possible the rapid growth of scientific knowledge characteristic of the nineteenth century. The reprint deserves to be read widely.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus.
By Robert Steele; with preface by William Morris. Pp. xv + 195. (London: Alexander Moring, Ltd., 1905.) Price 1s. 6d. net.
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Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus . Nature 71, 559 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071559a0
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