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    "en": "Sir Thomas Browne's 1646 encyclopaedic survey of 'vulgar errors' — popular received opinions Browne subjected to empirical, philological, and natural-philosophical scrutiny. The work is one of the earliest sustained English-language exercises in source-critical natural history, and is the citation point for the technical use of *antediluvian* as the designation for the period before the Flood. Browne treats the longevity of the patriarchs, the conditions of the pre-Flood world, and the natural history of the Genesis narrative as genuinely contested early-modern questions."
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