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: bogus work on Etruscan antiquities
"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings so impressive that he had all but lost control of his body ... buying the volume, Casaubon began to read it as he embarked on a boat for Gravesend ... [finding that] Every line of the work was fraudulent."
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Meric Casaubon Print: Book
: bogus work on Etruscan antiquities
"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings so impressive that he had all but lost control of his body ... buying the volume, Casaubon began to read it as he embarked on a boat for Gravesend ... [finding that] Every line of the work was fraudulent."