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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lation of science to faith could be no abstract matter , since his daily concern was life and death . Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imaginative mind since Shakespeare , ” 18 and indeed he often ...
lation of science to faith could be no abstract matter , since his daily concern was life and death . Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imaginative mind since Shakespeare , ” 18 and indeed he often ...
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knowledge about an important problem or " doubt , ” in the light of his own reasoning and experiments . a THE LOADSTONE Then as now the question of magnetism was a central problem in the concept of matter . The material on the loadstone ...
knowledge about an important problem or " doubt , ” in the light of his own reasoning and experiments . a THE LOADSTONE Then as now the question of magnetism was a central problem in the concept of matter . The material on the loadstone ...
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94 and “ The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England , ” The Philosophy of Science , IV ( 1937 ) , 75-95 . See also G. B. Stones , “ Atomic View of Matter in the Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth ...
94 and “ The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England , ” The Philosophy of Science , IV ( 1937 ) , 75-95 . See also G. B. Stones , “ Atomic View of Matter in the Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth ...
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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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