Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithSchuman, 1950 - 319 pages A study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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Page 73
... garden appear in a delightful account of Padua in 1645-46 by John Evelyn , that remarkable traveler and diarist , whom later on we shall find describing Browne's own garden and collec- tions in Norwich . Like Evelyn , Browne's son ...
... garden appear in a delightful account of Padua in 1645-46 by John Evelyn , that remarkable traveler and diarist , whom later on we shall find describing Browne's own garden and collec- tions in Norwich . Like Evelyn , Browne's son ...
Page 185
... Garden of Cyrus " Quincunxes in everything ! " said Coleridge after read- ing the companion piece to Urn Burial.12 There is noth- ing in literature like The Garden of Cyrus , or as the title reads in full : The Quincuncial Lozenge or ...
... Garden of Cyrus " Quincunxes in everything ! " said Coleridge after read- ing the companion piece to Urn Burial.12 There is noth- ing in literature like The Garden of Cyrus , or as the title reads in full : The Quincuncial Lozenge or ...
Page 187
... Garden of Cyrus , Browne attempts to answer this question . Giving the impression that he himself had rediscovered the term in the writ- ings of the ancients , he goes back to the beginning , dis- coursing of Paradise , the hanging gardens ...
... Garden of Cyrus , Browne attempts to answer this question . Giving the impression that he himself had rediscovered the term in the writ- ings of the ancients , he goes back to the beginning , dis- coursing of Paradise , the hanging gardens ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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