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 116
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christen- dom . ' " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote in ...
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christen- dom . ' " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote in ...
Page 187
... wrote : " I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras and the secret Magick of numbers , " and he devoted a whole chapter of Vulgar Errors to a discussion of num- bers . There is no indication that at that time he con- templated ...
... wrote : " I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras and the secret Magick of numbers , " and he devoted a whole chapter of Vulgar Errors to a discussion of num- bers . There is no indication that at that time he con- templated ...
Page 237
... wrote : " I give you many thankes for the bill ; my sick- nesse was a great hindrance to my practise in that sick time of the year , but I hope in God it will now encrease . " Even two years later Sir Thomas and Dorothy were sending ...
... wrote : " I give you many thankes for the bill ; my sick- nesse was a great hindrance to my practise in that sick time of the year , but I hope in God it will now encrease . " Even two years later Sir Thomas and Dorothy were sending ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
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