Author: (Sir) Thomas Browne

Cited by

• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit.
    FROM: Of Sperma Ceti and the Sperma Ceti Whale. Vide his V. E. (Pseudodoxia Epidemica), (1646), Book, UK