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. |
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Page 116
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christen- dom . " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote in ...
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christen- dom . " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote in ...
Page 130
... wrote the mathematic- cian Dr. John Wallis , " while I lived in London ( at a time when , by our Civil Wars , Academical Studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ) .. I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers ...
... wrote the mathematic- cian Dr. John Wallis , " while I lived in London ( at a time when , by our Civil Wars , Academical Studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ) .. I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers ...
Page 170
... wrote enthusiastically of botanical and anatomical studies at Cambridge , praised Descartes and Harvey , and revealed his growing interest in microscopy . It has been pointed out that his remarks on " the minute & capillary channels ...
... wrote enthusiastically of botanical and anatomical studies at Cambridge , praised Descartes and Harvey , and revealed his growing interest in microscopy . It has been pointed out that his remarks on " the minute & capillary channels ...
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