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 40
... followed to Norwich . Concerning Corbett and Lushington , a pleasant anecdote has come down through the years , which for a moment helps us to see the two faded seventeenth - century figures as flesh - and- blood human beings . The ...
... followed to Norwich . Concerning Corbett and Lushington , a pleasant anecdote has come down through the years , which for a moment helps us to see the two faded seventeenth - century figures as flesh - and- blood human beings . The ...
Page 50
... followed by four years for the doctorate - fourteen in all . Cambridge required eleven . It is hardly credible now that so much time could be given to the study of classical authorities like Galen or Aristotle with but a casual glance ...
... followed by four years for the doctorate - fourteen in all . Cambridge required eleven . It is hardly credible now that so much time could be given to the study of classical authorities like Galen or Aristotle with but a casual glance ...
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... followed in the universities for more than fifty years . But perhaps his greater interest was botany , which he had studied in Jerusalem and Egypt . In the latter country he had paid particular atten- tion to the artificial incubation ...
... followed in the universities for more than fifty years . But perhaps his greater interest was botany , which he had studied in Jerusalem and Egypt . In the latter country he had paid particular atten- tion to the artificial incubation ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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