John Swan, Speculum Mundi (1635)
Date
1635
Author
Lexicon title
A Table of the principall and most remarkable matters contained in this book
Book title
Specvlvm Mundi Or A Glasse Representing The Face Of The World; Shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: The manner How, and time When, being largely examined
WHEREUNTO IS JOYNED an Hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in Nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the Worlds creation
Publication place
Cambridge
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- fauna
- herbal
- travel
Extent
Sss1r-Xxx1v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Topaz, a very strange stone which stancheth bloud 295, 296 Tophus 292 Torch, a burning Meteor 89 Torpedo, a benumming fish 383
sample: Topaz, a very strange stone which stancheth bloud 295, 296 Tophus 292 Torch, a burning Meteor 89 Torpedo, a benumming fish 383
Schafer
1635 G
STC
23516
Criticisms
MacKenzie, Iain. "Note on John Swan: The Authorship of Speculum Mundi and Other Works Attributed to him." New Series. Notes & Queries 239.2 (1994): 161-65.
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