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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... essays with which he occupied himself . None of these companion pieces seem to have survived ; he probably destroyed ... essay itself , tells us some- thing of the manner in which Religio Medici was written . Browne was an inveterate ...
... essays with which he occupied himself . None of these companion pieces seem to have survived ; he probably destroyed ... essay itself , tells us some- thing of the manner in which Religio Medici was written . Browne was an inveterate ...
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... essay are held together loosely , it has a basic unity , which is found , not in a structural pattern , but in the character of its author . 22 The best clue as to the actual date of composition is his passing remark : " As yet I have ...
... essay are held together loosely , it has a basic unity , which is found , not in a structural pattern , but in the character of its author . 22 The best clue as to the actual date of composition is his passing remark : " As yet I have ...
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... essay upon the quincunx in mind when he wrote this passage is not clear , but it is certain that he revised it carefully , for at the bottom of a torn folio in the same manuscript a fragment of this same passage appears . Moreover , a ...
... essay upon the quincunx in mind when he wrote this passage is not clear , but it is certain that he revised it carefully , for at the bottom of a torn folio in the same manuscript a fragment of this same passage appears . Moreover , a ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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