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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Page 63
... garden , the oldest in Europe , and one of the show places of the Uni- versity . The long tradition of anatomical studies had not caused any neglect of botany , and the garden was under the direction of the eminent Johann Vesling , who ...
... garden , the oldest in Europe , and one of the show places of the Uni- versity . The long tradition of anatomical studies had not caused any neglect of botany , and the garden was under the direction of the eminent Johann Vesling , who ...
Page 149
... Garden of Cyrus , Browne at- tempts to answer this question . Giving the impression that he himself had rediscovered the term in the writings of the ancients , he goes back to the beginning , discoursing of Para- dise , the hanging gardens ...
... Garden of Cyrus , Browne at- tempts to answer this question . Giving the impression that he himself had rediscovered the term in the writings of the ancients , he goes back to the beginning , discoursing of Para- dise , the hanging gardens ...
Page 150
... Garden of Cyrus and is nearly always reprinted with it , is copied from diagrams in the two old books.16 In the face of such pilfering one might reasonably suspect the whole of Browne's essay to be a patchwork of borrowed material , but ...
... Garden of Cyrus and is nearly always reprinted with it , is copied from diagrams in the two old books.16 In the face of such pilfering one might reasonably suspect the whole of Browne's essay to be a patchwork of borrowed material , but ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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