text:  Goropius's book was published at a time when the learned world were in no humour to tolerate such absurdities; and therefore although exhibiting a considerable amount of learning in its own mad way and a proportionate and characteristic degree of ingenuity it called forth one of the severest reproofs that literary presumption has ever brought down from the pen of Joseph Scaliger whose condemnation was re-echoed by all the literary men of note of the day