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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11 Knowledge had not yet been subdivided into convenient areas for the specialist . Today's scientist is almost forced to limit his activities , if not his interests . A corner of a field of investigation , and probably a narrow one ...
11 Knowledge had not yet been subdivided into convenient areas for the specialist . Today's scientist is almost forced to limit his activities , if not his interests . A corner of a field of investigation , and probably a narrow one ...
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Although the men of the seventeenth century had come to realize how pitifully little they knew about the physical world , they also saw that they could not afford to strip away all the accumulated knowledge of the past .
Although the men of the seventeenth century had come to realize how pitifully little they knew about the physical world , they also saw that they could not afford to strip away all the accumulated knowledge of the past .
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It is not our " common sense , ” which we have almost identified with “ horse sense , ” for this loosely suggests an instinctive or natural knowledge . It is , rather , the pooled experience of mankind , what is plausible and acceptable ...
It is not our " common sense , ” which we have almost identified with “ horse sense , ” for this loosely suggests an instinctive or natural knowledge . It is , rather , the pooled experience of mankind , what is plausible and acceptable ...
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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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