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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... century , an age of shifting cross - currents , or religious and political turmoil , deeply in need of a fresh expression of an individual man's be- liefs . The Changing World of the Seventeenth Century The England into which Sir Thomas ...
... century , an age of shifting cross - currents , or religious and political turmoil , deeply in need of a fresh expression of an individual man's be- liefs . The Changing World of the Seventeenth Century The England into which Sir Thomas ...
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... 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 that time was ...
... 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 that time was ...
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... 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 . Phyllis ...
... 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 . Phyllis ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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