The rarities of the world : containing rules and observations touching the beginning of kingdoms and common-wealths, the division of the ages, and the memorable things that happened in them, why men lived longer in those days than in these present times : also the opinion of the great emperours, and Egyptians, touching the life of man, and the strange things that have befallen kings and princes : with excellent discourses of creatures bred in the sea, to the likenesse of man, and others on earth /