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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... 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 ...
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... Padua of Galileo , formerly a professor of mathematics there - how his colleagues had refused to look through his ... Padua at twice the usual salary , and whose great work , Medicina Statica , on the changes in weight of the human body ...
... Padua of Galileo , formerly a professor of mathematics there - how his colleagues had refused to look through his ... Padua at twice the usual salary , and whose great work , Medicina Statica , on the changes in weight of the human body ...
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... Padua's fame see T. Coryat , Coryat's Crudities ( 1611 ) , Glasgow , 1905 , I , 297- 298. Edward Browne , A Brief ... Padua and the Dawn of Experimental Science , " Ciba Symposia , X ( 1948 ) , p . 985. Sir W. Ösler , The Evolution of ...
... Padua's fame see T. Coryat , Coryat's Crudities ( 1611 ) , Glasgow , 1905 , I , 297- 298. Edward Browne , A Brief ... Padua and the Dawn of Experimental Science , " Ciba Symposia , X ( 1948 ) , p . 985. Sir W. Ösler , The Evolution of ...
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From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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