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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But this I perceive is easier affirmed then proved . a We sometimes find him mentioning authorities jokingly , as he does ... 6 Guillaume Rondelet , mentioned in an earlier chapter as one of the leading professors at Montpellier in the ...
But this I perceive is easier affirmed then proved . a We sometimes find him mentioning authorities jokingly , as he does ... 6 Guillaume Rondelet , mentioned in an earlier chapter as one of the leading professors at Montpellier in the ...
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From this point on , Power's experimental activities are frequently mentioned in the records of the Society . A thermometer was sent him , to observe the weather in Halifax . He reported on his investigations of the loadstone ...
From this point on , Power's experimental activities are frequently mentioned in the records of the Society . A thermometer was sent him , to observe the weather in Halifax . He reported on his investigations of the loadstone ...
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... and is pleased to have been mentioned in The Garden of Cyrus ; Browne thanks Dugdale for the bone of a large fish dug up by Sir Robert Cotton , rambles on for several pages about fossils of elephants and whales .
... and is pleased to have been mentioned in The Garden of Cyrus ; Browne thanks Dugdale for the bone of a large fish dug up by Sir Robert Cotton , rambles on for several pages about fossils of elephants and whales .
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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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