Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithCollier Books, 1961 - 251 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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... chapter on mineral bodies by naming writers who have said that a diamond will be softened by goat's blood : And first we hear it in every mouth , and in many good Authors read it , That a Diamond , which is the hardest of stones is yet ...
... chapter on mineral bodies by naming writers who have said that a diamond will be softened by goat's blood : And first we hear it in every mouth , and in many good Authors read it , That a Diamond , which is the hardest of stones is yet ...
Page 141
... chapter for Vulgar Errors . His account of the whale in the 1658 edition is taken largely from L'Estrange's notes , but he also includes Arthur Bacon's description of spermaceti as round pieces , " som as large as egges and on the ...
... chapter for Vulgar Errors . His account of the whale in the 1658 edition is taken largely from L'Estrange's notes , but he also includes Arthur Bacon's description of spermaceti as round pieces , " som as large as egges and on the ...
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... chapter . The third chapter is his own material , based upon his notebooks , and in the two concluding chapters he wanders off into mazes of speculation where the prosaic origins of his theme in two treatises on agriculture are ...
... chapter . The third chapter is his own material , based upon his notebooks , and in the two concluding chapters he wanders off into mazes of speculation where the prosaic origins of his theme in two treatises on agriculture are ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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