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 67
... Padua , nursery of Arts . And therefore . . . I have Pisa left , And am to Padua come , as he that leaves A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep . " The Schools are fair and large , " wrote Edward , after his visit there ...
... Padua , nursery of Arts . And therefore . . . I have Pisa left , And am to Padua come , as he that leaves A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep . " The Schools are fair and large , " wrote Edward , after his visit there ...
Page 70
... Padua of Galileo , formerly a professor of mathematics there - how his colleagues had refused to look through his telescope , how his experiments with falling bodies had exposed Aristotelian error , and how his book on the relative ...
... Padua of Galileo , formerly a professor of mathematics there - how his colleagues had refused to look through his telescope , how his experiments with falling bodies had exposed Aristotelian error , and how his book on the relative ...
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... Padua , " Journal of the History of Ideas , I ( 1940 ) , 177-206 . 25. Cat . , p . 29 , no . 50 : Gal . Galilæus de Systemate Mundi A. Treb . 1635 ; p . 30 , no . 4 : Pet . Gassendi Instit . Astronomiæ item Galileus & Kepler 1683 ; no ...
... Padua , " Journal of the History of Ideas , I ( 1940 ) , 177-206 . 25. Cat . , p . 29 , no . 50 : Gal . Galilæus de Systemate Mundi A. Treb . 1635 ; p . 30 , no . 4 : Pet . Gassendi Instit . Astronomiæ item Galileus & Kepler 1683 ; no ...
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Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
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