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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... the failure of the archaeus to regulate the chemistry of the body . Away with these false disciples who hold that this divine science [ alchemy ] , which they dishonor growth of the embryonic science of ch Browne's lifetime.R Van 80.
... the failure of the archaeus to regulate the chemistry of the body . Away with these false disciples who hold that this divine science [ alchemy ] , which they dishonor growth of the embryonic science of ch Browne's lifetime.R Van 80.
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A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith Jeremiah Stanton Finch. ALCHEMY When early in 1658 Sir V was taken ill and forced to interrupt his with Browne , Elias Ashmole , who had m daughter , seized the opportunity to writ Ostensibly he was ...
A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith Jeremiah Stanton Finch. ALCHEMY When early in 1658 Sir V was taken ill and forced to interrupt his with Browne , Elias Ashmole , who had m daughter , seized the opportunity to writ Ostensibly he was ...
Page 212
... Alchemy was also on the mind of Robert Paston , Earl of Yarmouth , when he wrote Browne excitedly in 1669 , and again in 1674 , about his own alchemical experiments , and of the attempts of a Danish physician , “ one Bouch- ius , " to ...
... Alchemy was also on the mind of Robert Paston , Earl of Yarmouth , when he wrote Browne excitedly in 1669 , and again in 1674 , about his own alchemical experiments , and of the attempts of a Danish physician , “ one Bouch- ius , " to ...
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From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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