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 17
... 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 258
... Vulgar Errors . The scien- tifically - minded Henry Justel also admired Browne's work . In his letters he repeatedly speaks of " les erreurs vulgaires , " and inquires about Sir Thomas Browne's health . As late as 1733 Vulgar Errors was ...
... Vulgar Errors . The scien- tifically - minded Henry Justel also admired Browne's work . In his letters he repeatedly speaks of " les erreurs vulgaires , " and inquires about Sir Thomas Browne's health . As late as 1733 Vulgar Errors was ...
Page 259
... Vulgar Errors was the kind of work to overthrow monstrous fictions and be useful in gaining the truth about natural phe- nomena . The learned John Frederick Reimmann said that it had cleared the sciences of error as Hercules cleaned the ...
... Vulgar Errors was the kind of work to overthrow monstrous fictions and be useful in gaining the truth about natural phe- nomena . The learned John Frederick Reimmann said that it had cleared the sciences of error as Hercules cleaned the ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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