流俗谬误
Pseudodoxia epidemica
Thomas Browne · 初版 1650 年
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《Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths》（亦简称为《Pseudodoxia Epidemica》或《Vulgar Errors》）是Thomas Browne的一部著作，旨在驳斥其所处时代的常见谬误与迷信思想。该书于1646年首次问世，随后历经五次再版，最后一次修订是在1672年。该作品展现了Browne对Bacon经验自然观察法的遵奉，在17世纪科学革命时期处于前沿探索性科学新闻报道的先锋地位，尽管他将自己的著作称作一部探
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《常见谬误》（Pseudodoxia Epidemica）内容庞杂、奇特又妙趣横生。我最喜欢的章节大概是讲双头蛇（Amphisbaena [1]，一种两头都有脑袋的蛇）的那篇，布朗基本上以它怪异到不可能存在为由予以驳斥。然后他就忍不住…
Pseudodoxia Epidemica is dense, strange and delightful. Probably my favorite chapter is on the Amphisbaena [1] (a serpent with a head on both ends), which Browne dismisses as basically being too weird to exist. Then he can't…
《常见谬误》（Pseudodoxia Epidemica）特别棒的一点在于你不用从头读到尾。你可以随时翻开，读读关于“山羊血是否能让钻石变软或破碎”，或者看看他是怎么评价女教皇琼（Pope Joan，一个女人…
One really nice thing about Pseudodoxia Epidemica is that you don't have to read it cover to cover. You can pick it up, read the bit about whether “a Diamond is made soft, or broke by the blood of a Goate”, or what he has to say about Pope Joan (a woman…
…基督教扼杀了人类精神这么久。据我的理解，尤其是那些稀奇古怪的自然科学知识，很多锅其实得由*亚里士多德*来背，而不是基督教。把《常见谬误》（Pseudodoxia Epidemica）加到我的‘如果有无限时间就去读’的书单里了。
…Christianity strangled the human spirit for so long. As I understand it, particularly for the bizarre natural sciences stuff, a lot of this is actually _Aristotle's_ fault, not Christianity's. Adding the Pseudodoxia Epidemica to my list of things to read if I ever have infinite time.