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 46
... early stages in the progress that was to be achieved in years to come . Every advance was painfully slow , especially in Oxford and Cambridge . Under such circum- stances it is not at all surprising that young Browne went to the ...
... early stages in the progress that was to be achieved in years to come . Every advance was painfully slow , especially in Oxford and Cambridge . Under such circum- stances it is not at all surprising that young Browne went to the ...
Page 72
... early as 1628. He later practiced medicine in Norwich and wrote a book which he entitled a “ calm ventilation ” of Browne's Enquiries into Vul- gar Errors , by the " still gale " of John Robinson . Although in his preface Robinson spoke ...
... early as 1628. He later practiced medicine in Norwich and wrote a book which he entitled a “ calm ventilation ” of Browne's Enquiries into Vul- gar Errors , by the " still gale " of John Robinson . Although in his preface Robinson spoke ...
Page 124
... early in the second book and reveals the importance that Browne attached to his magnets . This emphasis was no less than his predecessors and followers attached to these phenomena . In the thirteenth century , Petrus Peregrinus , or ...
... early in the second book and reveals the importance that Browne attached to his magnets . This emphasis was no less than his predecessors and followers attached to these phenomena . In the thirteenth century , Petrus Peregrinus , or ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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