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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Their acquaintance probably continued long after Browne left Oxford , for Lushington went to Norfolk and seems to have been closely associated with the group who later persuaded Browne to take up practice in Norwich .
Their acquaintance probably continued long after Browne left Oxford , for Lushington went to Norfolk and seems to have been closely associated with the group who later persuaded Browne to take up practice in Norwich .
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That Bacon had foreseen the need for such an intellectual housecleaning , Browne seems to have been aware . At one point in Religio , the young doctor pauses to speak scornfully of the fussy sort of mind that will accept wild stories ...
That Bacon had foreseen the need for such an intellectual housecleaning , Browne seems to have been aware . At one point in Religio , the young doctor pauses to speak scornfully of the fussy sort of mind that will accept wild stories ...
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At all events , despite the Society's emphasis on exactness , no one seems to have been excluded because of his manner of writing . It is very hard to believe that Browne was kept out by * The Society was , of course , quite able to ...
At all events , despite the Society's emphasis on exactness , no one seems to have been excluded because of his manner of writing . It is very hard to believe that Browne was kept out by * The Society was , of course , quite able to ...
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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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