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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 5
Page 188
... quincunx which Browne so learnedly sets forth appears to have been borrowed outright . Even his brief description of the shape of the quincunx as a symbol of the Roman numeral X , supposedly two Roman V's joined at the angle , is ...
... quincunx which Browne so learnedly sets forth appears to have been borrowed outright . Even his brief description of the shape of the quincunx as a symbol of the Roman numeral X , supposedly two Roman V's joined at the angle , is ...
Page 190
... quincunx in mind when he wrote this passage is not clear , but it is certain that he revised it carefully , for at the bottom of a torn folio in the same manuscript a fragment of this same passage appears . Moreover , a comparison of ...
... quincunx in mind when he wrote this passage is not clear , but it is certain that he revised it carefully , for at the bottom of a torn folio in the same manuscript a fragment of this same passage appears . Moreover , a comparison of ...
Page 300
... Quincunx , " Studies in Philology , XXXVII ( 1940 ) , 274–282 . S. Johnson , The Life of Sir Thomas Browne , Wilkin , I , 1 . 16. Finch , " Sir Thomas Browne and the Quincunx , " pp . 277- 282 . 17. J. S. Finch , " Early Drafts of the ...
... Quincunx , " Studies in Philology , XXXVII ( 1940 ) , 274–282 . S. Johnson , The Life of Sir Thomas Browne , Wilkin , I , 1 . 16. Finch , " Sir Thomas Browne and the Quincunx , " pp . 277- 282 . 17. J. S. Finch , " Early Drafts of the ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
anatomy ancient Andrew Crooke Anthony à Wood asserted Bacon body Broadgates Browne's Cambridge Charles Church Clayton College contemporary copy death discourse dissected Doctor Dorothy early edition Edward Browne England English essay Evelyn experimental experiments faculty famous father followed Galen Galileo Garden of Cyrus Gui Patin Harvey hath Henry Henry Power History interest John John Aubrey John Evelyn knowledge later Latin learned lectures letters Leyden Library lived London Lushington magnet manuscript ment mentioned mind Montpellier natural Norfolk Norwich notebooks notes observed Osler Oxford Padua Paris passages patients Patin Pembroke Pembroke College person philosophy physician portrait practice printed probably Puritan quincunx Religio Medici remarkable Royal Society Royalist scientific seems seventeenth century Shibden Hall Sir Thomas Browne studies things thought tion treatise University unto Urn Burial Vulgar Errors Wilkin William Winchester Winchester College writing wrote young