The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
301–400
1 work
c. 386–390
Latin
Ambrose of Milan · c. 339 – 397
Nine sermons on the six days, preached in Holy Week and following Basil closely while filling the natural history with Ambrose's own enthusiasms — the habits of bees, the cunning of the crab that drops a pebble into the oyster's shell, the pelican, and the phoenix as a figure of the resurrection.
1501–1600
1 work
1590
Spanish
José de Acosta · 1540–1600
Geography, altitude sickness, silver mining, and Andean religion, with an early argument that the Americas were peopled by migration from Asia across a northern land bridge.
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