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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... Vulgar Errors as the twilight of the medieval gods . They felt with Paul Elmer More that Browne " lovingly dallied with the witchery of the old learning . " 14 • One exception was the historian , H. T. Buckle , who asserted that ...
... Vulgar Errors as the twilight of the medieval gods . They felt with Paul Elmer More that Browne " lovingly dallied with the witchery of the old learning . " 14 • One exception was the historian , H. T. Buckle , who asserted that ...
Page 153
... Vulgar Errors he simply said that if anyone wished to believe that the earth moved , and " hath probable reasons for it , and I no in- fallible sense , nor reason against it , I will not quarrel with his assertion . " Sir Thomas's ...
... Vulgar Errors he simply said that if anyone wished to believe that the earth moved , and " hath probable reasons for it , and I no in- fallible sense , nor reason against it , I will not quarrel with his assertion . " Sir Thomas's ...
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... Vulgar Errors he confesses his regret at its lack of a " regular and con- stant stile . " In one chapter he frets over the nomen- clature of plants.25 There was yet no established scientific vocabulary . Words derived from Latin were ...
... Vulgar Errors he confesses his regret at its lack of a " regular and con- stant stile . " In one chapter he frets over the nomen- clature of plants.25 There was yet no established scientific vocabulary . Words derived from Latin were ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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