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 136
... ideas in three principal works : The Advance- ment of Learning ( 1605 ) , Novum Organum or New Methodology ( 1620 ) , and The New Atlantis ( 1627 ) . The last presented a utopian picture of an imaginary country , a scientist's paradise ...
... ideas in three principal works : The Advance- ment of Learning ( 1605 ) , Novum Organum or New Methodology ( 1620 ) , and The New Atlantis ( 1627 ) . The last presented a utopian picture of an imaginary country , a scientist's paradise ...
Page 143
... ideas , clearing the ground for the experimenters who will test " the things them- selves . " If it leads to new knowledge which in turn ren- ders its ideas obsolete , so much the better . The Enquiries do not assert but ask . Thus the ...
... ideas , clearing the ground for the experimenters who will test " the things them- selves . " If it leads to new knowledge which in turn ren- ders its ideas obsolete , so much the better . The Enquiries do not assert but ask . Thus the ...
Page 153
... ideas completely . New ideas are hard to accept , especially ideas that conflict with everything everyone has always believed . Bacon had opposed the Copernican theory ; Sir Thomas Browne re- mained uncertain . In Religio Medici he had ...
... ideas completely . New ideas are hard to accept , especially ideas that conflict with everything everyone has always believed . Bacon had opposed the Copernican theory ; Sir Thomas Browne re- mained uncertain . In Religio Medici he had ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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