The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Briercliffe (1618 (bap) - 1682)
Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3404 Relationships: John Briercliffe was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Jaws of a young
Shark.
of aJaws
Great Shark(Don.
Jo. BearcliffePharm
near two Yards wide; there are four, and in one Place five Rows of
Teeth visible; they are white, broad and indented.
ed serrated
Ric. Richard
sonM. D
son
Inches and a half long, smooth and shining, besides the Root which
is rugged.
Shark, amongst the Curiosities of the
half an Inch in the Animal that is two Yards long (
d)
d)
pag. 91.
appear, that the Shark, to which this belonged, hath been above thir
ty Foot in Length.
of the Shark is so wide, that a ManGula
may be swallowed entire; and some are of Opinion, that
in the Belly of one of these Fishes three Days and Nights (
e)
e)
Dr. Sloan's
Voyage to
pag. 23.
of a Fish (perhaps a Shark) it consists of thirty five Joints,
Vertebræ
with two Cavities in each for the Inarticulation of the Ribs.