Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated

by John Timbs

Excerpt from Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated

Fmv of the plans which have of lste yous been devised for the spread of knowledge, bsre specifically sinned st the object of the present volume to tslte us from the truck of our nursery mistakes, sud, by showing us new objects, or old ones in new lights, to reform our judgments' Locke defines Error to be a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to thst which is not true;-oud the illustration of these words is the main purpose of the l'orvuu Easons.

445 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 2013

About the author

John Timbs was an English antiquary. He was educated at a private school at Hemel Hempstead, and in his sixteenth year apprenticed to a druggist and printer at Dorking. He had early shown literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly Magazine. A year later he became secretary to Sir Richard Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession.

He was successively editor of the Mirror of Literature, the Harlequin, The Literary World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London News. He was also founder and first editor of Year-Book of Science and Art. His published works amounted to more than one hundred and fifty volumes. In 1834 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.