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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10 " 11 Browne , like Donne , Milton , and Evelyn , felt close to the ancients and was temperamentally preoccupied with the beginnings of things : Adam and Eve , the Flood , the early civilization of the Nile with its Sphinxes and ...
10 " 11 Browne , like Donne , Milton , and Evelyn , felt close to the ancients and was temperamentally preoccupied with the beginnings of things : Adam and Eve , the Flood , the early civilization of the Nile with its Sphinxes and ...
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... rule the seminal state of things . ' Which leads to the rhapsodic paragraph : Light that makes things seen , makes some things invisible ; were it not for darknesse and the shadow of earth , the noblest part of the Creation had 190.
... rule the seminal state of things . ' Which leads to the rhapsodic paragraph : Light that makes things seen , makes some things invisible ; were it not for darknesse and the shadow of earth , the noblest part of the Creation had 190.
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Besides , many things are known , as some are seen , that is by Parallaxis , or at some distance from their true and proper beings , the superficial regard of things having a different aspect from their true and central Natures .
Besides , many things are known , as some are seen , that is by Parallaxis , or at some distance from their true and proper beings , the superficial regard of things having a different aspect from their true and central Natures .
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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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