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not inferior to either of the above. . The Greek texts of Aristotle and Diosco- 

 rides were not published until the beginning of the sixteenth century ; but as 



Fig. 87. The Marine World according to the Conceptions of the Middle Ages. "How Alexander 

 lowered himself into the Sea in a Glass Barrel." Miniature of a Manuscript of the Thirteenth 

 Century, No. 11,040. In the Burgundy Library, Brussels. 



oiirly as I ho yoai- 1 47<i, the "History of Animals," so long neglected, or, to 

 sponk more correctly, eclipsed by the philosophical treatises of the illustrious 

 pei-ipiitotio of Sliigirii, was translated into Latin by Theodore Gaza. 



