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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... lived , as he himself expressed it , in " divided and distinguished worlds . " To some men there is really only one world — a mechanically functioning universe governed by a rational power . Here Browne stooped short . To him God could ...
... lived , as he himself expressed it , in " divided and distinguished worlds . " To some men there is really only one world — a mechanically functioning universe governed by a rational power . Here Browne stooped short . To him God could ...
Page 106
... lived . The Experimental Philosophers Browne was not the only Englishman to turn from the dis- tractions of the troubled times to a pursuit of scientific or philosophical inquiries . It is historically remarkable that an England torn by ...
... lived . The Experimental Philosophers Browne was not the only Englishman to turn from the dis- tractions of the troubled times to a pursuit of scientific or philosophical inquiries . It is historically remarkable that an England torn by ...
Page 107
... lived and had his laboratory for Chymistrie❞ at Gresham College in London . Though he was active politically , and accompanied the Parliamentary army to Ireland as Cromwell's physician and “ great confident , ” he managed to find time ...
... lived and had his laboratory for Chymistrie❞ at Gresham College in London . Though he was active politically , and accompanied the Parliamentary army to Ireland as Cromwell's physician and “ great confident , ” he managed to find time ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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