tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post6961977367488878060..comments2024-03-16T13:54:59.016-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `I Pare, Whittle, Plane, and Still It Rises'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-19735114514450957532012-09-22T04:58:46.562-05:002012-09-22T04:58:46.562-05:00It's just a guess, but is the author of Findin...It's just a guess, but is the author of Finding likely to have forgotten the 'large and prominent' pizzle of a whale washed up on the Norfolk coast and examined by one of his favourite authors? <br />"What Sperma-Ceti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hofmanus in his work of Thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit. ... That it proceedeth from a Whale, beside the relation of Clusius and other learned observers, was indubitably determined, not many years since by a Sperma-Ceti Whale, cast on our coast of Norfolk. Which, to lead on further inquiry, we cannot omit to inform. It contained no less then sixty foot in length, the head somewhat peculiar, with a large prominency over the mouth; teeth only in the lower Jaw, received into fleshly sockets in the upper. The Weight of the largest about two pound: No gristly substances in the mouth, commonly called Whale-bones; Only two short finns seated forwardly on the back; the eyes but small, the pizell large, and prominent. A lesser Whale of this kind above twenty years ago, was cast upon the same shore." Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Chap 26Christopher Thomsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-51969445230116066192012-09-22T04:48:02.802-05:002012-09-22T04:48:02.802-05:00It's just a guess, but isn't the author of...It's just a guess, but isn't the author of Finding unlikely to have forgotten the 'large and prominent' pizzle of a whale washed up on the Norfok coast and examined by one of his favourite authors? <br />"What Sperma-Ceti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hofmanus in his work of Thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit. ... That it proceedeth from a Whale, beside the relation of Clusius and other learned observers, was indubitably determined, not many years since by a Sperma-Ceti Whale, cast on our coast of Norfolk. Which, to lead on further inquiry, we cannot omit to inform. It contained no less then sixty foot in length, the head somewhat peculiar, with a large prominency over the mouth; teeth only in the lower Jaw, received into fleshly sockets in the upper. The Weight of the largest about two pound: No gristly substances in the mouth, commonly called Whale-bones; Only two short finns seated forwardly on the back; the eyes but small, the pizell large, and prominent. A lesser Whale of this kind above twenty years ago, was cast upon the same shore." Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Chap 26<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-66232717155839235242012-09-21T08:00:05.954-05:002012-09-21T08:00:05.954-05:00I'm working from memory here, but doesn't ...I'm working from memory here, but doesn't Shakespeare use pizzle in Othello?Chuck Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13071028509093276285noreply@blogger.com