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No references found | 30) Although some medieval works that contained these ideas, such as the De secreta mulierum, remained popular during the Elizabethan period, this did not entail acceptance of the parts of these works that adopted Plinian and Isidorian ideas. ethnographic curiosities such as the Eskimos, noblemen of Calicut and the Plinian races, exotic animals and monsters such as a Brazilian sea monster, the armadillo from the new world, a tuna fish found off the coast of Gibraltar, whose body was decorated with ships, and beached whales on the Dutch coast). His description of the eruption's mushroom-shaped ash column--like an "umbrella pine"--holds valid today, as volcanologists still call such an ash cloud a pino, and any explosive eruption is called, in his honor, a plinian. |
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