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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... seventeenth century had come to realize how pitifully little they knew about the physical world , they also saw that they could not afford to strip away all the accumulated knowledge of the past . The advance of scientific inquiry at ...
... seventeenth century had come to realize how pitifully little they knew about the physical world , they also saw that they could not afford to strip away all the accumulated knowledge of the past . The advance of scientific inquiry at ...
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... Seventeenth Century , " Harvard Studies in Classical Philology , XLV ( 1934 ) , 1–70 . 14. Works , II , 101. Chalmers , p . 94 and " The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century Eng- land , " The Philosophy of ...
... Seventeenth Century , " Harvard Studies in Classical Philology , XLV ( 1934 ) , 1–70 . 14. Works , II , 101. Chalmers , p . 94 and " The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century Eng- land , " The Philosophy of ...
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... seventeenth century see F. P. Verney , Memoirs of the Verney Family during the Civil War , London , 1892 , I , xiii . 4. Sloane MS 1797. N. Moore , The History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles , Oxford , 1908 , pp . 69–83 ...
... seventeenth century see F. P. Verney , Memoirs of the Verney Family during the Civil War , London , 1892 , I , xiii . 4. Sloane MS 1797. N. Moore , The History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles , Oxford , 1908 , pp . 69–83 ...
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From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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