Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithA 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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... indicating that Religio Medici was but one of several essays with which he occupied himself . ... be discovered from his notebooks and from the essay itself , tells us something of the manner in which Religio Medici was written .
... indicating that Religio Medici was but one of several essays with which he occupied himself . ... be discovered from his notebooks and from the essay itself , tells us something of the manner in which Religio Medici was written .
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“ As for those wingy mysteries in Divinity and ayery subtilties of Religion , which have unhing'd the braines of better heads ... " Yet , although the various portions of . the essay are held together loosely , it has a basic ...
“ As for those wingy mysteries in Divinity and ayery subtilties of Religion , which have unhing'd the braines of better heads ... " Yet , although the various portions of . the essay are held together loosely , it has a basic ...
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Whether Browne had an 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 ...
Whether Browne had an 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 ...
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Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith Issue 16 of Life of science library |
| Author | Jeremiah Stanton Finch |
| Publisher | Schuman, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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