{"id":187,"date":"2010-12-17T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T21:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=187"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:37:09","slug":"a-17th-century-thesis-recently-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2010\/12\/17\/a-17th-century-thesis-recently-acquired\/","title":{"rendered":"A 17th century thesis, recently acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/12\/img077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-189\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/12\/img077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/12\/img077.jpg 800w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/12\/img077-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Johannes Praetorius and Franciscus Romanus Bruno (respondent).\u00a0 <em>Disputatio historico-physica, de Crotalistria tepidi temporis hospita<\/em> ([Leipzig], 1702).\u00a0 First published in 1656, this is a treatise with a ponderous learned apparatus on the flights of migratory birds. \u00a0Johannes Praetorius, according to one authority, &#8220;had an open eye and a sharp ear for all wonder stories, witch tales, and accounts of ghosts and sorcery current among the people.\u00a0 He indefatigably collected all information on remarkable subjects and happenings, and was fond of popular gossip, even of the uncouth type.&#8221;\u00a0 The author makes an exhaustive search of classical to modern literature that deals with the migratory behavior of birds, extensively footnoted, with observations of bird flights from the Nile to Nova Zembla (among others).<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes Praetorius and Franciscus Romanus Bruno (respondent).\u00a0 Disputatio historico-physica, de Crotalistria tepidi temporis hospita ([Leipzig], 1702).\u00a0 First published in 1656, this is a treatise with a ponderous learned apparatus on the flights of migratory birds. \u00a0Johannes Praetorius, according to one authority, &#8220;had an open eye and a sharp ear for all wonder stories, witch tales, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}