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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... University ; to the staffs of the libraries of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the British Museum ; to Mr. M. O. Young and the staff of the Princeton University Library ; to Dr. J. F. Fulton , who loaned several volumes from his ...
... University ; to the staffs of the libraries of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the British Museum ; to Mr. M. O. Young and the staff of the Princeton University Library ; to Dr. J. F. Fulton , who loaned several volumes from his ...
Page 44
... University , Clayton probably watched the young man's progress care- fully , and Browne's referring familiarly to " old Dr. Clayton " in his later correspondence indicates that their association was close . Similarly , Browne would have ...
... University , Clayton probably watched the young man's progress care- fully , and Browne's referring familiarly to " old Dr. Clayton " in his later correspondence indicates that their association was close . Similarly , Browne would have ...
Page 76
... university and a remission of taxes for ten years . Wisely - and probably shrewdly - they chose a university . A century later , Ed- ward Browne described Leyden as " well built , hath di- vers large Streets , beautiful with rows of ...
... university and a remission of taxes for ten years . Wisely - and probably shrewdly - they chose a university . A century later , Ed- ward Browne described Leyden as " well built , hath di- vers large Streets , beautiful with rows of ...
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