to the Animals mentioned in Scripture; with a Design of examining and clearing such Passages, as are in this point liable to any Difficulties. You have here the principal of those who have treated of this Matter.
Bened. Ariæ Montani, Historia Naturæ. Antwerp, 1601, & in Bibl. Polyglott. Antwerp. We have already spoken of this Author. See his Title.
Samuelis Bochart, Hierozoicon, seu de Animalibus sacræ Scripturæ, two Vols. in fol. Lond. 1664. Besides this Edition of Bochart, there are two others; one at Frankfort, 1675. the other at Utrecht, 1692, and 1712. together with his other Works, three Vols. in fol. He was of Roan, a Calvinist, understood the Oriental Languages, and died in 1667, and in the 68th Year of his Age, having been born in 1599. The Work we are here speaking of deserves particularly to be recommended for the profound Erudition of it: Singulari plane eruditione refertum, says Fabricius in his Bibliographia.
Stephani Vesæi, Epitome Samuelis Bochart, Franekar, 1690. in 4to. He was by Nation a Hungarian.
Joan. Henrici Maii, Epitome ejusdem Hierozoici Sam. Bochart. Francof. 1686. This Author frequently rebukes Bochart, and sometimes with reason. His Abridgment is in 8vo. It was printed before at Durlach in 1685. We have spoken of him in several Places.
Wolfang. Franzius, de Animalib. sacr. Script. Wittembergæ, 1617. This Work was augmented and perfected by John Cyprian, and printed at Dresden, 1697. afterwards in 1712, two Vols. in 4to. It had been printed before at London, 1674, in 8vo. in English. The Author here follows a different Method from Bochart in his History of Animals. See his other Works, in our Lists upon Leviticus, and his Title in the Index. Cyprian was a German Lutheran, and Professor at Lipsick towards the End of the 16th Century.
Joan. Bustomantii, de Animalibus sacræ Scripturæ reptilibus. Complut. 1595. two Vols. in 4to. This Work is very superficial in comparison of Bochart’s. There are two other Editions besides that which we have mentioned of this History, printed at Lyons in 1620, and 1658, two Vols. in 8vo. Bustomantius was a Spaniard, a Physician of Alcala in 1595.
See what John Conrad Dieteric has written thereupon, in his Antiquities of the Bible, p. 416.
Godofr. Muller, Theologia Biblica, seu de Animalibus Biblicis. Wittebergæ, 1676, in 8vo. See his Title in the Index.
Joan. Henrici Ursini, Animalium Biblicorum Nomenclator. lib. 4. Miscellan. Sacror. Norimberg, 1666, in 8vo. See likewise his Title, ibid.
The Hieroglyphicks of Animals, published by Simson, and printed at Edinburgh, 1622, in 4to. His Name is not Edward, as Fabricius says, but Archibald Simson, of whom we shall say something upon St. Peter’s last Epistle.
The Physicial Comments of John de Mey, upon the Pentateuch, and New Testament, printed at Middleburg, 1661, in two Vols. in 4to. and in his Works, at Leyden, 1706, in fol. He was of Zealand, a Calvinist, and died in 1678.
Solomon Van-Til’s Treatise upon Animals, joined with his Comment upon Exodus, ch.xxv. to xxx. printed at Amsterdam, 1714, in 4to. in Latin. See his Title.
Olaus Rudbeck proposed to treat of all the Animals mentioned in Scripture; but we have hitherto the first Part only of this great Project, printed in Latin at Upsal, 1705, in 4to.
He only explains there what the Selau is, mentioned in Numbers xi. 31. He asserts, against the Opinion of Bochart and Ludolphus, that it was a Fish. He makes use of many Observations to render his Opinion probable, and adds Remarks borrowed from the Naturalists.
We have a Letter of M. Pestalozzi’s, a Physician, in the Memoirs of Trevoux for March 1719, or rather a Dissertation upon the Fish which swallowed up the Prophet Jonah. All that he says of it is learned and curious.