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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The scholars were drilled not only in reading and writing Latin , but in speaking it accurately and fluently as well . Although orations were properly considered the work of the university , there were exercises in declamation and in ...
The scholars were drilled not only in reading and writing Latin , but in speaking it accurately and fluently as well . Although orations were properly considered the work of the university , there were exercises in declamation and in ...
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Indeed , one of his marked characteristics as a writer is his tendency to wander off a subject into something ... But in writing his reflections on his own religious faith as a kind of private confessional , he was under no such ...
Indeed , one of his marked characteristics as a writer is his tendency to wander off a subject into something ... But in writing his reflections on his own religious faith as a kind of private confessional , he was under no such ...
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We might say : This is all very well , and probably typical of a good deal of the so - called scientific writing in the seventeenth century , but does it not suggest a backward - looking mind still encumbered with old ways of thinking ?
We might say : This is all very well , and probably typical of a good deal of the so - called scientific writing in the seventeenth century , but does it not suggest a backward - looking mind still encumbered with old ways of thinking ?
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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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