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 181
... ancient funeral rites , the odd accidents of burial , and the " fate of men's bones . " In his notebooks he found a few observations from learned works such as Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments and Kirchmann's Roman Funerals , as well ...
... ancient funeral rites , the odd accidents of burial , and the " fate of men's bones . " In his notebooks he found a few observations from learned works such as Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments and Kirchmann's Roman Funerals , as well ...
Page 185
... ancients and was temperamentally preoccupied with the beginnings of things : Adam and Eve , the Flood , the early civilization of the Nile with its Sphinxes and Pyramids . His strong sense of continuity foreshortened his perspective ...
... ancients and was temperamentally preoccupied with the beginnings of things : Adam and Eve , the Flood , the early civilization of the Nile with its Sphinxes and Pyramids . His strong sense of continuity foreshortened his perspective ...
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... ancient and respected institution which so many eminent London medical men have served . One - time student at Leyden , he was a competent and distinguished physician . But Edward soon found more than a professional interest in the ...
... ancient and respected institution which so many eminent London medical men have served . One - time student at Leyden , he was a competent and distinguished physician . But Edward soon found more than a professional interest in the ...
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