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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Page 95
Yet Browne must often have had reason to think that he had been preserved by the hand of Providence : " Nor can I relate the history of my life , the occurrences of my dayes , the escapes of dangers , and hits of chance , with a Bezo ...
Yet Browne must often have had reason to think that he had been preserved by the hand of Providence : " Nor can I relate the history of my life , the occurrences of my dayes , the escapes of dangers , and hits of chance , with a Bezo ...
Page 105
This charge , which as been made even to the present day , is refuted by the number of manuscript copies which have been discovered to exist - eight in all , none in Browne's hand , each differing from the others , and some bearing ...
This charge , which as been made even to the present day , is refuted by the number of manuscript copies which have been discovered to exist - eight in all , none in Browne's hand , each differing from the others , and some bearing ...
Page 107
At Oxford , a copy fell into the hands of the Earl of Dorset , then serving as commissioner of the King's treasury . ... praising the new book called Religio Medici and urging Digby to try his hand at a commentary on it .
At Oxford , a copy fell into the hands of the Earl of Dorset , then serving as commissioner of the King's treasury . ... praising the new book called Religio Medici and urging Digby to try his hand at a commentary on it .
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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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