17th-century engraving of the whale washed up on the shore of Berckhey near Scheveningen in Holland in 1598.
Featured on PDR in the essay A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the 17th-century's greatest writers stylishly debunk all manner of myths, in particular those relating to the world of animals.
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Whale Washed up on the Shore of Berckhey near Scheveningen in Holland in 1598
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