A sceptical work that debunks a number of legends circulating at the time in a methodical and witty manner, it displays the Baconian side of Browneâ the side that was unafraid of what at the time was still called "the new learning". ###>A sceptical work that debunks a number of legends circulating at the time in a methodical and witty manner, it displays the Baconian side of Browneâ the side that was unafraid of what at the time was still called "the new learning".