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 137
... seems to have been aware . At one point in Religio , the young doctor pauses to speak scornfully of the fussy sort of mind that will ac- cept wild stories out of Pliny yet question some accounts in the Bible . Then he bursts out : " My ...
... seems to have been aware . At one point in Religio , the young doctor pauses to speak scornfully of the fussy sort of mind that will ac- cept wild stories out of Pliny yet question some accounts in the Bible . Then he bursts out : " My ...
Page 139
... seems not to have considered him for his new book . Crooke dealt largely in plays , rather than in studious works like the one Browne now had ready ; moreover , his handling of Religio Medici had been hasty , to say the least , and ...
... seems not to have considered him for his new book . Crooke dealt largely in plays , rather than in studious works like the one Browne now had ready ; moreover , his handling of Religio Medici had been hasty , to say the least , and ...
Page 140
... seems to have felt confident in issuing a large edi- tion , for even today copies of the 1646 Vulgar Errors can be bought at moderate cost , as prices of famous seventeenth - century books go . It was , of course , a good business ...
... seems to have felt confident in issuing a large edi- tion , for even today copies of the 1646 Vulgar Errors can be bought at moderate cost , as prices of famous seventeenth - century books go . It was , of course , a good business ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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