Oddities
Gould, Rupert Thomas
Oddities a book of unexplained facts. Introd. by Leslie Shepard. - [3d ed.] - New York Bell [c1965] - viii, 228 p. illus., charts, facsims., maps. 24 cm.
[Reissue, with new index, of 2d ed., first published in l944]
Bibliographical footnotes.
The devil's hoof-marks. - The vault at Barbados. - The ships seen on the ice. - The Berbalangs of Cagayan Sulu. - Orffyreus' wheel. - Crosse's acari. - The auroras, and other doubtful islands. - Mersenne's numbers. - The wizard of Mauritius. - The plant Vulcan. - Nostradamus.
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Oddities a book of unexplained facts. Introd. by Leslie Shepard. - [3d ed.] - New York Bell [c1965] - viii, 228 p. illus., charts, facsims., maps. 24 cm.
[Reissue, with new index, of 2d ed., first published in l944]
Bibliographical footnotes.
The devil's hoof-marks. - The vault at Barbados. - The ships seen on the ice. - The Berbalangs of Cagayan Sulu. - Orffyreus' wheel. - Crosse's acari. - The auroras, and other doubtful islands. - Mersenne's numbers. - The wizard of Mauritius. - The plant Vulcan. - Nostradamus.
Curiosities