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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 61
... human body . * At Padua , Browne would have felt the full force of the Vesalian tradition . He would have witnessed dissections in the small amphitheater erected by Fabricius in 1594 , and under the arcades would have discussed with his ...
... human body . * At Padua , Browne would have felt the full force of the Vesalian tradition . He would have witnessed dissections in the small amphitheater erected by Fabricius in 1594 , and under the arcades would have discussed with his ...
Page 81
... human frame , just as in other branches of knowl- edge men were attempting to achieve a more satisfying account of the stars and of the earth itself . As he reflected on these problems , he must have been con- fronted with the challenge ...
... human frame , just as in other branches of knowl- edge men were attempting to achieve a more satisfying account of the stars and of the earth itself . As he reflected on these problems , he must have been con- fronted with the challenge ...
Page 146
... human ashes Browne's mind abandoned the experimental and leaped to the specu- lative . His notes became the raw material of artistic creation and emerged in separate paragraphs as integrated parts of a larger reflective whole . De ...
... human ashes Browne's mind abandoned the experimental and leaped to the specu- lative . His notes became the raw material of artistic creation and emerged in separate paragraphs as integrated parts of a larger reflective whole . De ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
anatomy ancient Anthony à Wood asserted Bacon Broadgates Browne's Cambridge Chapter Charles Church Clayton College of Physicians contemporaries copy death discourse dissected Doctor Dorothy early edition Edward Browne England English essay Evelyn experimental experiments faculty famous father followed Galen Galileo Garden of Cyrus Gui Patin Halifax Harvey hath Henry Henry Power History inquiry interest John John Aubrey John Evelyn King knowledge later Latin learned lectures letters Leyden lived London Lushington magnetic manuscript mentioned mind Montpellier natural Norfolk Norwich notebooks notes observed Osler Oxford Padua Paris passages patients Patin Pembroke Pembroke College person philosophy practice printed Pseudodoxia Epidemica Puritan quincunx Religio Medici remarkable Royal Society Royalist scientific seems seventeenth century Shibden Hall Sir Kenelm Sir Thomas Browne studies things thought tion treatise University unto Urn Burial Vulgar Errors Whitefoot Wilkin William Winchester writing wrote young